User:Jacksmith128

Marine veteran of Vietnam. Worked with Robert Jay Lifton, Chaim Shatan, Sarah Haley, Harley Shands, William G. Niederland and Robert Spitzer on re-entering traumatic stress in the Diagnostic Manual, DSM-III from 1974 to 1980. Director of the Vietnam Veteran National Resource Project in New York. With Arthur Egendorf, Robert Jay Lifton, Robert Laufer, wrote the first grant to the group to investigate the trajectory of the lives of Vietnam Generation at Columbia and the Center for Policy Research. Ran a construction company for returning combat veterans to teach them construction skills. Involved those vets in rap groups. Was a member of the orginal rap groups in New York. Later invited to the Soviet Union with Chuck Figley, Shad Meshad, and Bill Mahedy to work with Soviet veterans returning from Afghanistan in 1978. Helped turn that into a rota of therapists visiting Russian veterans and in turn invited Soviet veterans, doctors and journalists to the US to see the Vet Centers and meet American Vietnam veterans. Now working on traumatic stress in mothers of premature infants on the neonatal intensive care unit as part of a multidepartmental study of co-regulation of family nurture.