When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans

By "PAULA J." "CAPLAN"

Why are those devastated by war or other military experiences called mentally ill? The standard treatment of therapy and drugs can actually be harmful, and huge numbers of suffering veterans from earlier eras demonstrate its inadequacy.
 
Most of us are both war-illiterate and military-illiterate. Caplan proposes that we welcome veterans back into our communities and listen to their experiences, one-on-one. Beginning a long overdue national discussion about the realities of war and the military will help us bridge the dangerous chasms between veterans and nonveterans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Nov 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781504057011

"PAULA J." "CAPLAN"

Paula J. Caplan is a clinical and research psychologist and longtime advocate and activist for military veterans and their families. She is Founder and Director of the Listen to a Veteran! Project listentoaveteran.org a free service that has been proven to be helpful to veterans and their loved ones and illuminating to the nonveterans who listen to them. The project is based on her book, When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans, which won the Association of American Publishers Award for Best Psychology Book, the Independent Publishers Silver Award for Psychology, and the Independent Publishers Book-of-the-Month Award. Her awardwinning film, "Is Anybody Listening?" is based on that book isanybodylisteningmovie.org She is the author of ten other books and of numerous award winning plays, including SHADES, which is about veterans and nonveterans and which won two Best New Play Awards. Currently, she is an Associate at the Du Bois Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University.