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• Hidden Wounds May 24, 2013
  Returning soldiers' search for inner peace and healing. read more […]
  Nancy Sherman, Ph.D.
• Revenge Impulses Go Unchecked May 24, 2013
  The video of four U.S. Marines urinating on three dead Taliban fighters has ricocheted around the world with viral speed, rightly provoking moral outrage abroad and shame at home. The act is a violation of professional military conduct, and the fundamental moral requirement in war of showing dignity and respect to the dead.read more […]
  Nancy Sherman, Ph.D.
• Shame and Responsibility May 24, 2013
  Writing about guilt feelings can open the floodgates to readers' own painful and unresolved guilt, but also to outrage at those who should feel guilt, but don't. The probing and rich comments I received on line and in email about my essay, "The Moral Logic of Guilt," touched on both responses and set me thinking more about the appropriate […]
  Nancy Sherman, Ph.D.
• The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt May 24, 2013
  If there is one thing we have learned from returning war veterans - especially those of the last decade - it's that the emotional reality of the soldier at home is often at odds with that of the civilian public they left behind.read more […]
  Nancy Sherman, Ph.D.
• The Combat Element Part 2 May 24, 2013
  In the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, soldiers survive their wounds in a way that was simply impossible in previous wars.read more […]
  Nancy Sherman, Ph.D.
• The Combat Element, Part 1 May 24, 2013
  On a sticky Sunday, June morning in the Washington DC area, I drove my daughter to a triathlon at a Navy base some 2 hours south of our home. The event (3/4 mile swim, 6 mile bike ride, and 3 mile run) drew a lot of military athletes, but also civilians interested in the same exhilaration of hard, physical activity.read more […]
  Nancy Sherman, Ph.D.

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