Wizard 6 Reviews

July/August 2006 
BOOKS IN REVIEW

Douglas Bey had just finished a three-year residency at the Menninger School of Psychiatry studying under the famed Dr. Karl Menninger when he reported to Fort Sam Houston for Army basic medical training. Before that, he had earned his medical degree at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. After a stint at Fort Knox, he arrived in Vietnam in May 1969.

Bey spent the next year as a psychiatrist “helping men adjust to a crazy place,” as he aptly puts it—at the 1st Infantry Division’s headquarters in Di An. He provides the details of that year in his well-written, illuminating Wizard 6: A Combat Psychiatrist in Vietnam (Texas A&M University Press, 304 pp., $44, hardcover; $19.95, paper).

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