Date:
November 15, 2012
Time:
1500 Hours Pacific
Topic:
Thirty Days with My Father: Finding Peace from Wartime PTSD
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The
November 15, 2012, Episode of American Heroes Radio features a conversation
with Dr. Christal Presley, Ph.D., the author of Thirty Days with My Father:
Finding Peace from Wartime PTSD. Christal Presley, PhD, is the founder of
United Children of Veterans (www.unitedchildrenofveterans.com), a website that
provides resources about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children of
war veterans. She obtained her PhD in education in 2009, and is an
instructional mentor teacher in Atlanta Public Schools.
Publisher’s
Weekly said of Thirty Days with My Father: Finding Peace from Wartime PTSD, “A
soldier's return home from war is often just the beginning of another, more
internalized battle. In her memoir, Presley recounts 30 days of interviews with
her Vietnam veteran father—conversations in which she attempts to understand
her father, his PTSD, and her own lifetime of vicarious traumas. Each day is
given a chapter, and each chapter concludes with a "Journal" entry
that revisits Presley's tumultuous childhood memories. What emerges from this
format is a harrowing portrait of the past's ability to haunt the present;
Presley's descriptions of the troubled child she was blend all too easily into
the confused and searching adult she becomes. In some cases, she is compelled
to go to a Veterans Affairs hospital and even to Vietnam. The book's division
into 30 days feels increasingly forced and fragmented with the passing of each
chapter. Such a story is, by its very nature, fractured, and by the end of the
book Presley's father is no less tormented than he was at Day One. Yet Presley
has found stability in her father's story, and her willingness to share it—and
her own revelations—will be appreciated by readers who deal with any form of
wartime PTSD.”
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