Reply #42: Jeff Lucey's Group Therapy [View All]

You have an idealized sense of what actually goes on in VA hospitals. Jeff Lucey was most likely told he should get over his guilty feelings. Maybe he didn't get that in one-on-one sessions with a psychiatrist, but he certainly got that in group. I do not believe that anyone in the VA encouraged him to seek forgiveness.

A positive step forward in the rehabilation of soldiers in the kind of pain Jeff Lucey felt would be to stop telling them they're wrong to feel that way. These guys are coming back by the hundreds from a war in which they've personally engaged in great wrongdoing. They're not whiners or nut jobs, or any of the things that Jeff Lucey almost certainly was called.