Weary Warriors

<p> As seen in military documents medical journals novels films television shows and memoirs soldiers' invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions-families activist groups government bureaucracies welfare state programs-mediated through a military hierarchy psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers' bodies minds and souls developing an extensive account of the emergence diagnosis and treatment of soldiers' invisible wounds.</p>