Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1. Introduction.- Part I: The Pre-history of Resilience.- 2. A New Psychology of War: The Science of Resilience and the Militarization of Positive Psychology.- 3. Resilience on the March: Stoic (Social) Grit.- 4. Alternative Histories of Resilience: After and Before PTSD.- Part II: Contemporary Military Cases.- 5. 'The Bullet-Proof Mind': Resilience and Warfighters in the US Marine Corps.- 6. Reconceptualizing Military Resilience Programming in the United States Army as Human Resource Management.- Part III: Intimate Military Lives and Spirituality.- 7. Toughened Love: The US Military, 'Resilience' and the Instrumentalization of Romantic Intimacy.- 8. Resilience as a Failed Concept: The Militarization of Intimate Lives.- 9. Measuring the American Soldier's Spiritual Fitness for Warfare: How the US Army Converts Different Forms of Belief into Different Ways of Being, and Why This Matters.