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Wizard
6 Now available in hardcover or paperback.
Author:
Douglas Bey
Publisher: Texas A&M University
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In 1969 six psychiatrists were assigned to combat
divisions in Vietnam, charged with treating soldiers showing psychiatric
symptoms in order to get them back into battle.
Doug Bey, whose radio call name
in the 1st Infantry Division was Wizard 6, was one of those psychiatrists.
Drawing on graphic detail gleaned from a journal Bey transcribed when he got
back stateside, this psychiatric specialist describes the daily life of a
military support unit, the boredom and mind-numbing routine, but also the social
issues and psychiatric crises he confronted.
In Vietnam he treated people with a
range of coping mechanisms, including counter phobic reactions, self-medication
with drugs and alcohol, and "gross stress reaction," as well as the
gamut of psychiatric illnesses. Each month Bey and his staff saw some four
hundred men, including characters like the Vietnam equivalent of Klinger from
M*A*S*H, a killer dentist, soldiers addicted to killing, and others who did not
want to go home. He witnessed firsthand black pride, Vietnamese prejudice,
racial conflict, and the Viet Cong's fear of mental illness.
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