Dr. Jonathan Shay gets award for work with vets, PTSD

Doctor gets award for work with vets, PTSD
By Tom Dalton
Staff writer

SALEM — A Boston-area doctor who received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for his groundbreaking work on the combat trauma suffered by Vietnam veterans has won the 2011 Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice.

Dr. Jonathan Shay, a former staff psychiatrist for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Boston, will be presented the award on Saturday, May 7.

He will be honored at a dinner and award ceremony at Salem High School.

Shay is the author or two books on post-traumatic stress disorder, "Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character" and "Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming."

The committee for this year's award was researching post-traumatic stress disorder as it related to the thousands of combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Shay's name kept popping up.
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Doctor gets award for work with vets, PTSD