If you are in crisis and in need urgent of help, reach out to these organizations:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Call: 1-800-273-8255
Text Crisis Text Line: Text HELLO to 741741

Crisis counselors are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If the situation is potentially life-threatening, call 911 or go to a hospital emergency room immediately.

Befrienders: www.befrienders.org

Videos

• William Nash Discusses Moral Injury Beyond the Military Context
• Introducing The Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America
• Extending the Concept of Moral Injury Beyond a Military Setting
• Volunteers of America CEO Speaks to the Personal Side of Moral Injury
• Paula Hart Discusses Recent Moral Injury Convening
• Abiathar Carroll Discusses the Concept of Moral Injury
• John Thomason Provides Thoughts on Moral Injury Event
• Gayle Robertson Discusses the Benefits of a Moral Injury Event

• Dr. Jonathan Shay on Moral Injury
• Dr. Rita Brock on Soul Repair

Websites

• Shay Moral Injury Center: https://www.voa.org/moral-injury-center
• The Moral Injury Project: http://moralinjuryproject.syr.edu/
• Soul Repair Center: https://www.brite.edu/programs/soul-repair/
• VA PTSD website article on moral injury: ptsd.va.gov/professional/newsletters/research-quarterly/v23n1.pdf

Books

• Boulanger, Ghislaine (2007). Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult-Onset Trauma. Mahwah, NJ: Analytic Press.
• Brock, Rita Nakashima and Lettini, Gabriella (2012). Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War.Boston: Beacon Press.
• Courtois, Christine and Ford, Julian D. (2013). Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach. New York: Guilford.
• Doerries, Bryan (2015). All That You’ve Seen Here is God: New Versions of Four Greek Tragedies – Sophocles’ Ajax, Philoctetes, Women of Trachis; Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound. New York: Random House.
• Doerries, Bryan (2015). The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today. New York: Knopf.
• Epstein, Mark (2013). The Trauma of Everyday Life.New York: Penguin.
• Frankl, Viktor E. (1959/2006). Man’s Search for Meaning.Boston: Beacon Press.
• Herman, Judith (1997): Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. New York: Basic Books.
• Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie (1992). Shattered Assumptions: Towards a New Psychology of Trauma. New York: Free Press.
• Klay, Phil (2014). Redeployment. New York: Penguin Books.
• Lifton, Robert Jay (1973). Home From the War: Learning from Vietnam Veterans. New York: Other Press.
• Litz, Brett T.; Lebowitz, Leslie; Gray, Matt J.; and Nash, William P. (2015). Adaptive Disclosure: A New Treatment for Military Trauma, Loss, and Moral Injury. New York: Guilford.
• Marlantes, Karl (2011). What It Is Like to Go to War. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
• McClelland, Mac (2015). Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story. New York: Flatiron Books.
• Miller, Ronald B. (2004). Facing Human Suffering: Psychology and Psychotherapy as Moral Engagement. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Morris, David J. (2015). The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
• Schauer, M.; Neuner, F.; and Elbert, T. (2011). Narrative Exposure Therapy: A Short-Term Treatment for Traumatic Stress Disorders. Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe.
• Shay, Jonathan (1995). Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and The Undoing of Character.New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Shay, Jonathan (2002). Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and The Trials of Homecoming. New York: Scribner.
• Sherman, Nancy (2015). Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers.New York: Oxford University Press.
• Sherman, Nancy (2011). The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers.New York. W. W. Norton & Company.
• Sites, Kevin (2013). The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done, or Failed to Do in War.New York: Harper Perennial.
• Stolorow, Robert (2007). Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections.New York: Routledge.
• Tick, Edward (2005). War and The Soul: Healing Our Nation’s Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.Wheaton, IL: Quest Books.
• Tick, Edward (2014). Warrior’s Return: Restoring the Soul After War. Boulder, CO: Sounds True.
• Van Der Kolk, Bessel (2014). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. NY: Viking.
• Wood, David (2016). What Have We Done? The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars.New York: Little, Brown, & Co.

Movies

• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) – Combat trauma and moral injury in WWII veterans
• Coming Home (1978) – Combat trauma and moral injury in Vietnam veterans
• The Deerhunter (1978) – Combat trauma and moral injury in Vietnam veterans
• The Accused (1988) – Noncombat PTSD and moral injury from sexual assault
• Born on the Fourth of July (1989) – Combat trauma and moral injury in Vietnam veterans
• Jackknife (1989) – Combat trauma and moral injury in Vietnam veterans
• The Fisher King (1991) – Noncombat PTSD
• The Prince of Tides (1991) – Adult effects of childhood trauma, moral injury (suicidality)
• Schindler’s List (1993) – Noncombat moral injury
• The War at Home (1996) – Combat trauma and moral injury in Vietnam veterans
• Missing in America (2005) – Combat trauma and moral injury in Vietnam veterans
• Gran Torino (2008) – Combat trauma and moral injury in Korean War veterans
• In the Valley of Elah (2008) – Combat trauma and moral injury in OED/OIF/OND veterans
• Brothers (2009) – Combat trauma and moral injury in OED/OIF/OND veterans
• Manchester by the Sea (2016) – Noncombat moral injury
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) – Noncombat moral injury

*Adapted from Volunteers of America website.