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Book details
  • Genre:SELF-HELP
  • SubGenre:Spiritual
  • Language:English
  • Pages:300
  • eBook ISBN:9781483524283

Vietnam Redemption...Full Circle

by Joseph C. Baginski MSW

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Overview

Returning to the People's Republic of Vietnam after forty-three years, the author experienced a near total, catastrophic collapse of his psychological defense mechanisms through flashbacks. In the telling of the Vietnam Redemption...Full Circle story, Joe takes the reader into his experiences of war and introduces Vietnamese characters who reveal their own injured souls and the personal experiences that caused them. He does not leave the reader hanging in pain, but walks us through the process he discovered, that led to his own recovery from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This is a must read for anyone who is seeking relief for injuries afflicting their soul.

Description

This book was written with combat veterans of the Vietnam War in mind, of whom, Joe Baginski, is one. The central theme is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which is a type of injury to the soul of the combat veteran. But this book also speaks to the injured souls of everyday people, the non-veteran, walking wounded. In other words, Vietnam Redemption...Full Circle is about the human condition and how the events and circumstances of our lives often inflict wounds upon our souls. Through his fictional character development, Joe introduces us to some of these psychic wounds, wounds which largely go unidentified but not unfelt. In a sense, we are all walking-wounded as we journey through life. So this book is for all of us, the maimed survivors of this life. There are any number of ways those injuries are incurred, so how it happens matters little in the overall scheme of things. As a therapist, what seems important to the author, however, is that we recognize that it has happened to us. These injuries create the "baggage" that we carry through life. Apart from recognition, no healing can take place, and healing is essential if we are to live a life of integrity and joy. It is not recognition, per se, that heals, but, recognition is a precursor to healing. Unfortunately, many people recognize that they have been damaged in some way or other and may even recognize who afflicted them, how and when it happened, but because they do not take steps to remediate the problem, all they can do is feel it. There is a better way and that is what the author discusses in the closing chapters of Vietnam Redemption…Full circle. 

About the author

Joseph C. Baginski, MSW, a Vietnam War helicopter pilot, retired from a career in commercial aviation, is also an experienced psychotherapist. Acquainted with his own encounter with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, he is passionate about the healing and reconciliation of all wounded relationships and has even spent time meeting with former enemy soldiers in Vietnam doing that work. Joe and his wife, Jenny, are empty nesters with two children, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.  They reside in Lincoln, California with Teddy, their Lhasapoo.