A Realist Account of Stress, PTSD, and Resilience: Lessons from the United States Marine Corps

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Frank Tortorello

A Realist Account of Stress, PTSD, and Resilience

Lessons from the United States Marine Corps

Frank Tortorello

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English

Routledge
30 September 2021

Regional studies; Society & culture: general; Social & cultural anthropology; Neurosciences; Medical anthropology

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 , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1 A New Realist Account of How Physical Science Works; 2 The Marine Corps’ COSC Doctrine: An Impossible Science of Human Nature; 3 The Marine Corps’ COSC Doctrine: An Impossible Science of Perception; 4 Applying the Traditional Approach and the USMC COSC Doctrine Part I: Ideology and Self-Defeat; 5 Applying the Traditional Approach and the USMC COSC Doctrine Part II: Immorality and Self-Defeat; 6 Replacing the Traditional Approach with New Realism: Framework for a Scientifically Defensible and Ethically Justifiable Human Science; 7 Applying a New Realist Human Science to Stress, PTSD, and Resilience; 8 Stress, PTSD, and Resilience as Ways of Being; 9 PTSD as Existential Crisis; Conclusion

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.