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| Paper Title: | Forging Resilience in the Crucible of War: A Psychological Analysis of Trauma, Moral Injury and Reintegration in Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's The Healer's War |
| Authors Name: | Jeya Vardhani S V , Dr. B. Pavithra |
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| Published Paper Id: | IJRTI2510126 |
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| Abstract: | The Healer War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is a critical psychological reading discussed in the paper using Glenn E. Richardson metatheory of resilience and resiliency (1988). It suggests that the main character, a nurse Kathleen "Kitty" McCulley, passes through the three phases of the Richardson model - Homeostasis, Disruption, and Reintegration, and shows how trauma disrupts and recreates the self. This paper investigates how Scarborough combines realism and fantasy in her narrative to depict psychological survival during the devastation of war using qualitative textual analysis. The fact that Kitty is taken on a journey of stability by experiencing moral, emotional and existential breakdowns before leading to reintegration shows the deep-seated involvement of trauma and healing in the novel. The magic amulet is not seen as a form of escapism and it is used as a metaphor to reach inner strength. By presenting the complex trauma of Vietnam through moral injury, systematic failures and gendered violence, Scarborough describes a vision of recovery as transformation. Finally, The Healer War is a sympathetic image of the patched-up healer who only comes to terms with the scars as a way of wisdom to be healed. The paper will conclude that the novel by Scarborough is aligned with such theorists of trauma as Judith Herman and Bessel van der Kolk in describing the process of healing as a process of integration and makes the novel a monumental work in the literature of the Vietnam War and trauma studies. |
| Keywords: | Trauma Studies, Resilience, Vietnam War Literature, Literary Psychology, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. |
| Cite Article: | "Forging Resilience in the Crucible of War: A Psychological Analysis of Trauma, Moral Injury and Reintegration in Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's The Healer's War", International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no.b216-b223, October-2025, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2510126.pdf |
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