Abstract

“But Meanwhile the Dead Poison Us and Those Who Come after Us”: The Presence of Ghosts in Veterans’ Writing and Art and the Implications for Medical Professionals

Highlights

  • There is a multiplicity of themes, styles, and media in the writing and art of war veterans

  • James Webb (2014) reflects on a photograph he took when he returned to Vietnam in 2004. As he reminisces Webb sees not just the terrain and “Marines who might be trapped ...sniper nests and points of attack” (p. 279). This intimate knowledge of war, with the attendant unrelenting memories, separate the veteran from the civilian: “And here is where I and my fellow combat veterans stand on one side of a great impassable divide, with the rest of the world on the other” (Webb, 2014, p. 279)

  • I would suggest that writing and the arts are instrumental in the healing process by offering ways to come to terms with the ghost

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Summary

Introduction

There is a multiplicity of themes, styles, and media in the writing and art of war veterans. The ghosts appear in many forms, and represent sights, sounds, and smells of war, the dead, and even the dissociated self.

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