Never Leave Your Dead: A True Story of War Trauma, Murder, and Madness
Autor Diane Cameronen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2016
Was Donald a traumatized veteran? A victim of abuse in the mental-health system? Was he a criminal? Mentally ill? Or just eccentric?
Join author Diane Cameron as she unravels the true story of her stepfather, Donald Watkins, a former Marine who served in China from 1937 to 1939 during the Japanese invasion. After returning home, Donald’s seemingly normal life took a sharp turn when he murdered his first wife and mother-in-law in 1953. As punishment for his crime, he spent twenty-two years at Fairview State Hospital for the criminally insane.
Donald’s story traverses continents and decades. Years after his release from Farview, Cameron’s stark examination of her relationship with Donald and her mother highlights the far reach of mental illness. Her in-depth research and keen insight will stir public debate about what is happening today and what we can expect as the impact of war trauma for veterans and their families unfurls and detonates.
Diane Cameron is an award-winning columnist. An excerpt from Never Leave Your Dead was first published in the Bellevue Literary Review and was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize.
Join author Diane Cameron as she unravels the true story of her stepfather, Donald Watkins, a former Marine who served in China from 1937 to 1939 during the Japanese invasion. After returning home, Donald’s seemingly normal life took a sharp turn when he murdered his first wife and mother-in-law in 1953. As punishment for his crime, he spent twenty-two years at Fairview State Hospital for the criminally insane.
Donald’s story traverses continents and decades. Years after his release from Farview, Cameron’s stark examination of her relationship with Donald and her mother highlights the far reach of mental illness. Her in-depth research and keen insight will stir public debate about what is happening today and what we can expect as the impact of war trauma for veterans and their families unfurls and detonates.
Diane Cameron is an award-winning columnist. An excerpt from Never Leave Your Dead was first published in the Bellevue Literary Review and was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781942094166
ISBN-10: 1942094167
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Central Recovery Press, LLC
Colecția Central Recovery Press
ISBN-10: 1942094167
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Central Recovery Press, LLC
Colecția Central Recovery Press
Recenzii
“It is a privilege to meet Diane Cameron through this book. She has made her own hero’s journey and brought us back this boon. No sentimentality here!"—Jonathan Shay, MD, PhD, author of Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America
“This book tells the story of a stepdaughter’s effort to understand what caused her stepfather to kill his first wife and then mother-in-law. We often think that people who kill others are invariably ‘psychopathic’ and evil. But as Cameron shows, this is not always the case. If you have ever wondered about and tried to understand what motivates victims of psychological trauma to commit acts of violence, this book is for you. Cameron takes you with her on her journey of discovery, finding records and talking to experts to put the pieces of the puzzle of her stepfather together. The book is quite interesting and easy to read. It helps the reader to understand that sometimes perpetrators of violence are victims of, and witnesses to, the most horrendous indecency human beings can inflict on one another. I highly recommend this work as an effort toward a greater understanding of individuals suffering from PTSD who might commit acts of violence.”—Victor Ashear, PhD, author of Self-Acceptance: The Key to Recovery from Mental Illness
“Diane Cameron’s Never Leave Your Dead, unfolding like a good psychological mystery, is at once heartfelt and unillusioned. It asks the hard questions and considers the harrowing evidence about violence and its impacts on the soul, but then looks to move past judgment. Here are images and perspectives that will not be forgotten, however much the reader hopes they might. To understand the power of forgiveness we need to understand what things need to be forgiven. Cameron instructs us in both.”—Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies and The Art of the Memoir
“Wars never end for their survivors. Despite new diagnostic language and a culture at times sympathetic, military trauma all too often devastates the lives of our veterans and those who love them long after armistice. With this poignant, timely, and unforgettable memoir of her own effort to comprehend, Diane Cameron issues a powerful reminder that mental trauma is an intricate, three-dimensional problem—one that resists easy judgments and defies simple answers. Grounded in history, informed by psychiatry, and written with a rare blend of compassion and moral urgency, this is a powerful meditation on love, war, and our humanity. As our young men and women continue to return from Iraq and Afghanistan, may their families—and our national policy makers—read this important book and ponder its many valuable insights.”—Dr. Brian Matthew Jordan, author of Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
“Diane Cameron is a teacher and historian who puts one Marine’s life into the context of historical events—many which we have forgotten. She frames that man's trauma and that of many of the men we send to war. Part memoir, part history lesson, and part psychological mystery, Diane’s book educates all of us about the complexity of a single life, and she helps us to understand and honor our warriors, past and present. As a clinician who worked with traumatized veterans at the VA for many years, I am moved by the compassion in Diane’s understanding of what it means to be a Marine, and how the trauma of war can mold one’s life forever. This is a compelling story and a well-researched history lesson that remains relevant today.”—Susan Griffiths, RN, MS, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Psychiatric Nursing
"Diane Cameron’s book is simply a tour-de-force—with the page-turning power of a world-class thriller. It is the story of one family member’s attempt to create a coherent narrative out of the mind-numbing shards of war trauma. Cameron is a fierce detective—deeply well-informed—and every page of her determined inquiry moves us closer to a nuanced understanding of the effects of trauma on us all. The astonished reader of this book accompanies Cameron on her journey through a fog of cultural and clinical denial and superstition—and finally arrives with her at some profound and healing truths. I simply could not put this book down."—Stephen Cope, Senior Scholar-in-Residence at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and best-selling author of The Great Work of Your Life and Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
Notă biografică
Diane Cameron is an award-winning columnist whose topics include popular culture and social perspective. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Tribune,
Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Albany Times Union. Her column, “The Common Writer,” in the Altamont Enterprise was awarded first place for Best Column from the New York Press Association in April of 2007. An excerpt from Never Leave Your Dead was first published in the Bellevue Literary Review and was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize.
Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Albany Times Union. Her column, “The Common Writer,” in the Altamont Enterprise was awarded first place for Best Column from the New York Press Association in April of 2007. An excerpt from Never Leave Your Dead was first published in the Bellevue Literary Review and was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize.
Descriere
A portrait of how decades of war trauma and the twentieth-century mental health system transformed a man and a family.