This book rejects traditional, dominant—typically reductive and anti-realist—explanations of stress, PTSD, and resilience. Frank Tortorello presents the United States Marine Corps’ doctrinal explanation of stress, PTSD, and resilience as a case in point using new realist theoretical resources from Rom Harré and Charles R. Varela. The author systematically exposes the scientific and ethical failures of traditional explanations in accounting for the actions of stressed and resilient Marines on and off the battlefield. The power of new realist explanations emerges in application to the same ethnographic data, thereby supporting the author’s call to replace traditional explanations with those grounded in new realism.
By:
Frank Tortorello Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g ISBN:9781138283527 ISBN 10: 1138283525 Pages: 400 Publication Date:30 September 2021 Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Frank Tortorello is an independent scholar previously employed as a contracted social scientist by the United States Marine Corps. He received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.