| Bibliography for Killing as Trauma Books Grossman, D. (1995). On killing: The psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Written by an army officer, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman illustrates from his own interviews and historical and contemporary sources dealing primarily with combat veterans. MacNair, R. M. (2002). Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress: The psychological consequences of killing. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. Pulling together the evidence, including case studies and studies of large numbers of people, for a wide range of groups: combat veterans, those who carry out executions, the historical case of the Nazis, police who shoot in the line of duty, criminal homicide, etc. Trudeau, G. B. (2006). The war within: One more step at a time. A Doonesbury book. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McNeel Publishing. An artistic rendition of the experience through the use of cartoons, as the long-standing character B.D. suffers through the implications. research Articles & Chapters MacNair, R. M. (2001). Psychological Reverberations for the Killers: Preliminary Historical Evidence for Perpetration- Induced Traumatic Stress. Genocide Research, vol. 3, no. 2. MacNair, R. M. (2002). Brief Report: Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress in Combat Veterans. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 63-72. MacNair, R. M. (2002). The Effects of Violence on Perpetrators. Peace Review: A Transnational Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 67-72 MacNair, R. M. (2004). Killing as Trauma: The Religious Implications of Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 15, pp. 17-39. Rohlf, V. & Bennett, P. (2005). Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress in persons who euthanize nonhuman animals in surgeries, animal shelters, and laboratories. Society & Animals, 13, 201-219. MacNair, R. M. (2006). Violence Begets Violence: The Consequences of Violence Become Causation. In M. Fitzduff & C. Stout (Eds.), The psychology of war, conflict resolution, and peace. Westport, CT: Praeger, pp. 191-210 MacNair, R. M. (2007). Killing as trauma. In E. K. Carll (Ed.),Trauma psychology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Praeger . Dillard, Jennifer, (Forthcoming) "A Slaughterhouse Nightmare: Psychological Harm Suffered by Slaughterhouse Employees and the Possibility of Redress through Legal Reform." Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Abstract available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1016401 Popular Media Baum, Dan. (2004). The price of valor: We train our soldiers to kill for us. Afterward, they’re on their own. The New Yorker, July 12 and 19. Fair, Eric. (2007). An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare. Washington Post, February 9, p. A19 Dateline NBC, May 25, 2008, "Coming Home" with Keith Morrison, transcript on web Web Page overviews www.rachelmacnair.com/pits basic information www.rachelmacnair.com/pits-lit examples from world literature www.rachelmacnair.com/pits-stories expressions from personal stories The Price of Valor 2004 article in The New Yorker For comments or questions, or to add other sources, please contact Rachel MacNair at admin@rachelmacnair.com |