“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
By: Larry Abbott
References
- Aldington, R. (1986).
“Concert.” In D. Hibberd & J. Onions (Eds.), Poetry of the Great War (p. 152). St. Martin’s Press. - Aldington, R. (1986).
“Reserve.” In D. Hibberd & J. Onions (Eds.), Poetry of the Great War (p. 152). St. Martin’s Press. - Aldington, R. (2013). Death of a hero. Penguin Books.
- Brennan, T. J., & O’Reilly, F. (2017). Shooting ghosts. Viking Press.
- Campo, R. (2017, April 11). Quoted in Dockser-Marcus, A. A doctor explains the healing power of poetry. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from
http://libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/authmaine.asp?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1886248324?accountid=17222 - Campo, R. (2018). Comfort measures only: New and selected poems, 1994–2016. Duke University Press.
- Castner, B. (2016). All the ways we kill and die. Arcade Publishing.
- Charon, R. (2001, October 17). Narrative medicine: A model for empathy, reflection, profession, and trust. JAMA 2001, 286(15), 1897–1902. DOI: 10.1001/jama.286.15.1897
- Graves, R. (1957). Goodbye to all that. Rev. ed. Penguin Books.
- Hall, J. (2020, March 11). Postponed: Upcoming exhibition features artwork developed through creative arts therapies. National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved from
https://www.arts.gov/news/2020/postponed-upcoming-exhibition-features-artwork-developed-through-creative-arts-therapies - Ham, S. (n.d.). Stephen Ham. National Veterans Art Museum (NVAM). Retrieved from
http://collection.nvam.org/index.php?artist=Ham%2C+Stephen - Hefti, M. (2017).
“We put a man in a tree.” In A. Bonenberger & B. Castner (Eds.), The Road Ahead (pp. 257–273). Pegasus Books. - King, J. (2020). Your brain on art: A promising path to heal war trauma. International Arts and Minds Lab, Brain Science Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved from
https://www.artsandmindlab.org/your-brain-on-art-a-new-path-to-healing-war-trauma/ - Kirkland, K., & Craig, S. (2018). Exploring the surgical gaze through literature and art. JAMA: The Arts and Medicine, 319(15), 1532–1534. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2018.0396
- Komunyakaa, Y. (1988). Dien Cai Dau. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England.
- Leed, E. J. (1979). No man’s land: Combat and identity in World War I. Cambridge UniversityPress.
- Marlantes, K. (2011). What it is like to go to war. Grove Press.
- McBain, S. (2015). Embedded. Retrieved from
https://youtu.be/xQX5YJ6TqUc - McGrath, T. (1980). The movie at the end of the world. The Swallow Press.
- O’Brien, T. (1990). The things they carried. Houghton Mifflin.
- Owen, W. (1986).
“Dulce et Decorum Est.” In D. Hibberd & J. Onions (Eds.), Poetry of the Great War (p. 141). St. Martin’s Press. - Sherman, N. (2015a). Nancy Sherman on moral injury. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4O_RuFkcA4 - Sherman, N. (2015b). Afterwar: Healing the moral wounds of our soldiers. Oxford University Press.
- Skorton, D., & Bear, A. (Eds.). (2018). The integration of the humanities with sciences, engineering, and medicine in higher education: Branches from the same tree. National Academies Press. DOI: 10.17226/24988
- Smith, H. Z. (1989). Not so quiet … Stepdaughters of war. City University of New York/Feminist Press.
- Stryk, L. (1969). The pit and other poems. Chicago, IL: The Swallow Press.
- Tuval-Mashiach, R., Patton, B., & Drebing, C. (2018). When you make a movie, and you see your story there, you can hold it: Qualitative exploration of collaborative filmmaking as a therapeutic tool for veterans. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01954
- Uriarte, M. (2016). The white donkey. Little Brown and Company.
- Walker, M. (2016, November 11). Quoted in Chen, D. Gallery: How these powerful masks are helping combat veterans heal. Ideas.Ted.Com. Retrieved from
https://ideas.ted.com/gallery-how-these-powerful-masks-are-helping-combat-veterans-heal/ - Webb, J. (2014). I heard my country calling: A memoir. Simon & Schuster.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v6i1.177 | Journal eISSN: 2470-4768
Language: English
Page range: 178 - 185
Submitted on: Mar 31, 2020
Accepted on: May 2, 2020
Published on: May 22, 2020
Published by: Virginia Tech Publishing
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
© 2020 Larry Abbott, published by Virginia Tech Publishing
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.