Dr. Jonathan Shay, a leading psychiatrist in working with combat veterans, will be on campus this week to meet with various groups who might benefit from his expertise. He is the author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character (1994) and of Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming (2002).

He will present a lecture and book signing at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9 in Sid Richardson LH1. His topic is “Homer on Leadership: Military Leadership and the Prevention of Moral Injury.”

Scott Williams (Modern Languages) has arranged his schedule to include meeting an Honors class, Army and Air Force ROTC cadets and members of the Student Veterans Alliance.

A graduate of Harvard University with M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Shay was a staff psychiatrist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, Boston, where his only patients were combat veterans with severe psychological injuries. He served as Visiting Scholar-at-Large at the US Naval War College in 2001 and later as Chair of Ethics, Leadership, and Personnel Policy in the Office of the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel.

Dr. Shay is on the board of directors of the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School and will participate in its two-day public conference Oct. 10-12.

His campus visit is sponsored by Brite, AddRan College of Liberal Arts, John V. Roach Honors College, Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences, Provost’s Office, the Departments of Modern Language Studies, History, Philosophy, Army and Air Force ROTC, the Classical Studies Program, TCU Veterans Services Task Force and Veterans Coalition of Tarrant County.