Jonathan Shay's Copy of Iliad/Odyssey

<img data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22double-brackets%22%2C%22lineStart%22%3A%22%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Infobox%5C%2FArtifact%5Cn%22%2C%22placeholder%22%3A1%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%7B%7BInfobox%5C%2FArtifact%5Cn%7CtitleName%20%3D%20Jonathan%20Shay%27s%20Copy%20of%20Iliad%5C%2FOdyssey%5Cn%7Cimage%20%3D%20file%3Ashayhomer.jpg%5Cn%7Ccaption%20%5Cn%7Corigin%20%3D%20Jonathan%20Shay%5Cn%7Ctype%20%3D%20Copy%20of%20Homer%27s%20Iliad%20and%20Odyssey%5Cn%7Ceffects%20%3D%20Transfers%20PTSD%20from%20one%20person%20to%20another.%5Cn%7Cdownsides%20%3D%20Increases%20receiver%27s%20moral%20injury.%5Cn%7Cactivation%20%3D%20Holding%20by%20two%20people.%5Cn%7Ccollector%20%3D%20Arthur%20Nielson%5Cn%7Csection%20%3D%20%5B%5BPsychology%20Section%7CPsyche-764%5D%5D%5Cn%7Caisle%20%3D%203764-1532%5Cn%7Cshelf%20%3D%20%28%28TBA%29%29%5Cn%7CcollectionDate%20%3D%20October%205%2C%202002%7D%7D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="609322-27866861657f59a3b61fc2" class="placeholder placeholder-double-brackets" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIABAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAABAAEAQAICTAEAOw%3D%3D" type="double-brackets" /> ​Origin Jonathan Shay (born 1941) is a doctor and clinical psychiatrist. He is best known for his publications comparing the experiences of Vietnam veterans with the descriptions of war and homecoming in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey  with his books Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. Shay is a passionate advocate of improved mental health treatment for soldiers and of more vigorous efforts to prevent PTSD, in addition to structural reform of the ways the U.S. armed forces are organized, trained, and counseled. He has promoted the concept of preventative psychiatry in support of military cohesion, leadership and training: "Prevention of psychological and moral injury in military service has three axes: cohesion, leadership, and training. First is keep people together. Train them together, send them into danger together, bring them home together, and give them time together to digest what they’ve just been through...The second axis is expert, ethical, and properly supported leadership...The third axis of prevention is prolonged, progressive, realistic training for what the troops have to do and face. Shay introduced the concept of "Moral injury" and recommended treatment strategies for it in his two books. Moral injury is a distinct syndrome from (but often co-morbid with) PTSD and is one of the primary themes for the veterans described in his books, often leading to personality changes and obstructing successful treatment. Moral injury refers to an injury to an individual's moral conscience resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression which produces profound emotional shame. ​Effects This book allows for the transference of one person's PTSD (including symptoms, specifc triggers and trigger susceptiblity, etc.) to another when held by another person. The one who recieves the transfered PTSD will also have their feelings of moral injury greatly heightened to the point of developting self-depricating tendencies.