Richard Avramenko

May 15, 2024 | informahealthcare.com | Richard Avramenko |Philip Bunn

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s). Notes1 There are likewise efforts to assuage the harms of combat through the therapeutic use of Greek tragedy. See (Doerries Citation2015). Avramenko (Avramenko Citation2011) discusses the problem of PTSD in connection to the story of the Battle of Marathon in Herodotus, but only obliquely connects PTSD to Plato and the ancients.

Apr 8, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Richard Avramenko |Philip Bunn

AbstractDespite the laudable efforts of the medical and scientific community, the suicide contagion of the early twenty first century shows little sign of abating, especially amongst veterans. This article suggests that a supplemental resource for addressing the contemporary problem of suicide might be found in the history of political thought.

Aug 16, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Lee Trepanier |Richard Avramenko |Jodi Bruhn |Andrew Beck

This year on Canada Day, July 1, it took an act of faith to find something to celebrate. We are eight years into the “post-national” regime of Justin Trudeau. The government elected in 2021 is a minority: technically, it could fall at any time. Yet, in March 2022, on the heels of the prime minister’s invocation of the Emergencies Act to crush the Trucker Convoy, the Liberal Party of Canada struck a supply and confidence agreement with the socialist New Democratic Party.