Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging Audiobook (Free)

From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why males miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all study from American Indian captives who refused to go back home.

Tribe is a look at post-traumatic tension disorder and the issues veterans face returning to culture. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that this problem lies not with vets or with the stress they’ve suffered, but with the culture to that they want to about Tribe: On Homecoming and Owed return.

Probably one of the most puzzling reasons for having veterans who encounter PTSD is that the majority never even found combat-and yet they experience deeply alienated and out of place back home. The reason why may lie inside our organic inclination, like a species, to live in sets of thirty to fifty individuals who are completely reliant on one another for protection, comfort and a sense of meaning: in a nutshell, the life of a soldier.

It is one of the ironies of the present day age that seeing that affluence rises inside a society, so do rates of suicide, despair and of course PTSD. Inside a rich society people don’t need to cooperate with one another, so they often lead very much lonelier lives that result in psychological distress. There’s a way for society to change this trend, nevertheless, and studying how veterans respond to arriving home may provide a idea to how to do it. But it won’t be easy.