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Changing How We Think About Mental Heath
How else can you review a book and conclude it is anything but an inspired and most worthy read when, early on and in the span of just six pages, its author provides a civilian like me with powerful insight into military culture and the veteran experience by first calling upon Francis Ford Coppola’s memorable Lt. Col. Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall in the 1979 movie “Apocalypse Now”, and then quotes, with equal effect, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. Reminiscent of how over a generation ago another clinician, then working for the VA, Dr. Jonathan Shays, first compared the experiences of Vietnam veterans with the descriptions of war and homecoming in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, I dare say veterans of the “Long War” (a.k.a. “Global War on Terror”) have now found their voice in Retired Army NCO turned mental health clinician, Duane France. France’s clarity of thought, shared in well-chosen words and with an authority which comes with action in the arena, makes this a must-read for service members and veterans, just as it is for civilians, be you a family member, clinician, or one of the 99% of Americans who, I would respectfully submit, have a civic duty to better understand the 1% who raised their right hand, doing what they did and did not do, and seeing what they saw, all in our name. Be you active service, proud holder of the DD-214, a family member counting a veteran among the loves of your life, a professional clinician or community service volunteer seeking to empower those transitioning from one defining chapter of their lives to the “next mission”, you will hopefully be moved, as am I, to embrace France’s challenge to all of us to shift the way we think and talk about mental health. And shamelessly borrowing from Duane France, “if you are serving, have served, are a military family member, remember...you are not alone. Ever.”
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Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2020
How else can you review a book and conclude it is anything but an inspired and most worthy read when, early on and in the span of just six pages, its author provides a civilian like me with powerful insight into military culture and the veteran experience by first calling upon Francis Ford Coppola’s memorable Lt. Col. Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall in the 1979 movie “Apocalypse Now”, and then quotes, with equal effect, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. Reminiscent of how over a generation ago another clinician, then working for the VA, Dr. Jonathan Shays, first compared the experiences of Vietnam veterans with the descriptions of war and homecoming in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, I dare say veterans of the “Long War” (a.k.a. “Global War on Terror”) have now found their voice in Retired Army NCO turned mental health clinician, Duane France. France’s clarity of thought, shared in well-chosen words and with an authority which comes with action in the arena, makes this a must-read for service members and veterans, just as it is for civilians, be you a family member, clinician, or one of the 99% of Americans who, I would respectfully submit, have a civic duty to better understand the 1% who raised their right hand, doing what they did and did not do, and seeing what they saw, all in our name. Be you active service, proud holder of the DD-214, a family member counting a veteran among the loves of your life, a professional clinician or community service volunteer seeking to empower those transitioning from one defining chapter of their lives to the “next mission”, you will hopefully be moved, as am I, to embrace France’s challenge to all of us to shift the way we think and talk about mental health. And shamelessly borrowing from Duane France, “if you are serving, have served, are a military family member, remember...you are not alone. Ever.”
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