Moral injury
The wound that comes from doing, witnessing, failing to prevent, or being betrayed in the doing of something that violates one's deepest sense of what is right. A reading list assembled around the term — Shay's originating clinical use with Vietnam veterans, Litz's reformulation as a distinct category from PTSD, the theological and philosophical responses (Tick, Brock & Lettini, Sherman, Kinghorn), the veteran prose and journalism (Boudreau, Wood, Klay), the measurement instruments (Currier, Koenig), and the recent extension into healthcare during and after COVID.
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◊ concepts
Adaptive disclosure · Agent-regret · Atrocity-producing situation · Just war · Moral distress · Moral injury · Moral repair · Perpetration-induced traumatic stress · Post-traumatic stress disorder · Potentially morally injurious event · Soul wound · Thémis · Thumos
❡ people
Andrew Jameton · Bernard Williams · Brett Litz · Camillo "Mac" Bica · Camilo Mejía · David Wood · Edward Tick · Gabriella Lettini · Harold G. Koenig · Jonathan Shay · Joseph M. Currier · Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon · Karl Marlantes · Larry Dewey · Margaret Urban Walker · Nancy Sherman · Phil Klay · Rachel M. MacNair · Rita Nakashima Brock · Robert Emmet Meagher · Robert Jay Lifton · Simon Talbot · Tyler Boudreau · Warren Kinghorn · Wendy Dean
§ sources
- A Therapeutic Application of Philosophy — The Moral Casualties of War
- The Morally Injured
- Soul Repair — Recovering from Moral Injury After War
- Initial Psychometric Evaluation of the Moral Injury Questionnaire — Military Version
- Physicians Aren't 'Burning Out.' They're Suffering Moral Injury.
- War and Redemption — Treatment and Recovery in Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Combat Trauma and Moral Fragmentation — A Theological Account of Moral Injury
- After War, A Failure of the Imagination
- Redeployment
- The Moral Injury Symptom Scale — Military Version
- Home from the War — Vietnam Veterans, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
- Moral Injury and Moral Repair in War Veterans — A Preliminary Model and Intervention Strategy
- Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress — The Psychological Consequences of Killing
- What It Is Like to Go to War
- Killing from the Inside Out — Moral Injury and Just War
- The Road from Ar Ramadi — The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejía
- Achilles in Vietnam — Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
- Casualties
- Odysseus in America — Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
- Afterwar — Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers
- War and the Soul — Healing Our Nation's Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Moral Repair — Reconstructing Moral Relations after Wrongdoing
- Moral Injury and the Promise of Virtue
- Shame and Necessity
- COVID-19 and Experiences of Moral Injury in Front-Line Key Workers
- Occupational Moral Injury and Mental Health — Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- What Have We Done — The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars