ABSTRACT
New moral injury theorists arising from the disciplines of philosophy, political science, cultural anthropology, literature, journalism, poetry, and theology have joined the social conversation about veteran care. Despite the important ideas they formulate, their contributions have been practically limited insofar as they have not often led to direct collaboration with psychiatric professionals in the development of new approaches to care. This chapter identifies two unique formulations of complex veteran distress that cannot be addressed exclusively by the prevailing psychiatric paradigm. It also offers a concrete model for how concerned non-psychiatric moral injury theorists can collaborate with local psychiatric professionals in providing an enriched mode of care that goes beyond the traditional focus on psychiatric and psychological formulations. In developing a unified voice, such enlarged teams can articulate more adequate conceptualizations of the relevant phenomena and, thus, impact directly on improved modes of care.
