From the author of AN IDEAL STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home.

Tribe is a glance at post-traumatic tension disorder as well as the challenges veterans face returning to culture. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not with vets or using the injury they’ve experienced, but using the society to that they are trying to about Tribe: On Homecoming and Owed return.

Perhaps one of the most puzzling things about veterans who knowledge PTSD is that almost all never even found combat-and yet they experience deeply alienated and out of place back. The reason may lie inside our natural inclination, as a varieties, to reside in sets of thirty to fifty folks who are entirely reliant on one another for basic safety, comfort and a feeling of meaning: in a nutshell, the life of the soldier.

It is among the ironies of the modern age that while affluence rises inside a society, so do rates of suicide, major depression and of course PTSD. Inside a wealthy society people don’t need to cooperate with each other, so they often times lead very much lonelier lives that result in psychological distress. There is a method for modern society to reverse this trend, nevertheless, and learning how veterans respond to coming home might provide a clue to how exactly to do it. Nonetheless it will not be easy.