Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital

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Title: Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital
Author: Heidi Squier Kraft
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year: 2007
256 pages

Kraft was a navy psychologist who was sent to Iraq for 7 months. This memoir recounts her deployment. She and her team seem to have spent much of their time doing immediate response for medical traumas, some critical incident debriefing, emergency psychiatric evaluation, and regular appointments. This is described against the backdrop of Kraft's wrenching separation from her young twins.

I would have wished for more technical descriptions of the therapeutic work. While Kraft goes into her countertransference and other emotional responses, I'd have liked to read about this in a deeper context, even if it was in composite cases.