Nancy Sherman





ARTICLES
Soldiers: The War Within
—PsychCentral.com

Reprehensible Behavior Is a Risk of Combat, Experts Say

—New York Times

Marines video and the ugly impulse of revenge

—CNN International, by Nancy Sherman, Special to CNN

Beyond PTSD: Soldiers Have Injured Souls

–Miller-Mccune.com

Shame and Responsibility: A Response
—New York Times

The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt

—New York Times

'Untold War' author sees guilt as a key component of military humanity
—DeseretNews.com

Q&A: Nancy Sherman
—TMP: The Philosophers' Magazine

Drell Lecture at Stanford: Georgetown philosopher says soldiers' guilt deserves more attention

—Stanford University News

Drell Lecture: The Moral Wounds of War
—Devin Banerjee, Honors Student at CISAC

Talking Out Loud About War, and Coming Home
- NYTimes.com

Ideas of the century: the moral psychology of war
PhilosophyPress.com

Featured Interview for Veteran’s Day

The Nation Writing Project

The United States' great shame

—The Irish Times

Wounded warriors tragic reminder of war
—ABC Online

“Army of One”
—Community Health magazine

Sick of Sucking it Up
—Big Think
Philosophy professor Nancy Sherman interviewed veteran soldiers and found they wanted to shed their Stoic armor. “Notions of Stoic purity and ...


The Stoicism of Soldiers
–Psychology Today

A Crack in the Stoic’s Armor - Opinionator Blog
- NYTimes.com
The Stoicism that serves soldiers well at war can have a heavy cost at home...

What Good Soldiers Bear
—AmericaMagazine.org

STOIC WARRIORS: Nancy Sherman on modern soldiers and ancient wisdom
—TMP The Philosopher's Magazine

Heroes on the Homefront
—Christal Smith,
The Huffington Post

As part of my research I spoke to Nancy Sherman, author of an intriguing analysis of the mentality of the warrior in combat and at home. Trained as a philosopher and a psychoanalyst, she makes the case that wars are fought on two fronts, one with guns and the other within the psyche.

Soldiers' Moral Wounds
—The Chronicle Review
What it feels like to put on a military uniform, deploy, and come home is still not really part of the public conversation about war. Even in philosophy or ethics classes in which war is the topic and some of our students are themselves about to go to war or have just come home, the inward war soldiers wage is often kept outside the classroom...
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The Guilt They Carry
Wounds of Iraq and Afghanistan

—Dissent Magazine
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CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS:
"Duty, Country, Politics"

Soldiers not only fight for each other but for the cause, said Nancy Sherman, a professor at Georgetown University who specializes in military ethics. "They want to know that the cause is just," she says. "It's hard to fight when soldiers don't know what they're fighting for. They also need to know that the cause is worth their sacrifice."









NANCY SHERMAN on
psychology today