The Pilgrimage of Wounds on the Healing Path: Review of: Edward Tick, Warrior's Return: Restoring the Soul After War. Boulder: Sounds True, 2014.

Jungian psychotherapist Dr. Edward Tick has worked with American veterans of foreign wars for decades. During that time, he learned that one of the most effective paths to healing was to guide Vietnam veterans back there to retrieve their souls that had been left behind, often for decades. He took the acronym PTSD and translated it as Post-traumatic Soul Distress. Those in the medical profession worked with the physical injuries of traumatized veterans; however, they overlooked the trauma to the souls of these returning warriors. Tick and his wife, Kate Dahlstedt, founded Soldier's Heart () in order to travel more deeply into the mythology, spirituality, and psychology of woundedness. He continues his work today in branching out to a larger population suffering the wounds of a society itself in need of soul intervention. There, too, he deepens his interest in ancient forms of healing in the tradition of the ancient healer Asklepios, by guiding pilgrims to ancient healing sites in Greece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]