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    Using the Illiad and the Odyssey to Treat Combat Trauma

    Decatur Metro | February 23, 2011 | 10:07 am

    “Cyclops” from Charles Berkowitz on Vimeo.

    This sounds like a rather intriguing talk and film.  From Emory’s Carlos Museum…

    Jonathan Shay, clinical psychologist and winner of the 2007 MacArthur “genius” award, will discuss his groundbreaking work to treat combat trauma and other effects of warfare on veterans and their families using Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in a lecture titled, War is War is War is War is War on February 27 from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The lecture will be followed by a screening of Odysseus in America by filmmaker Charles Berkowitz.

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