UPDATED: Dr. James Brodlie – is unable to attend the Oct 11 RMA meeting. Hopefully we will be able to reschedule his presentation.
The RMA is fortunate to have Mark Perlman, a writer, available on such short notice to be our speaker tomorrow. Here is a description of his talk:
Mark Perlman– Author, “The Reluctant Soldier”. Mr. Perlman talks about his historical novel “a wonderful mix of history and fiction about WWI, (the intervening years in Paris), and WWII”. The book sets out the experiences, both good and laced with discrimination, of a fictional African American soldier.
Mr. Perlman will speak in-person at the regularly scheduled time of 11:00, and you are invited to attend. You can also view the presentation on ZOOM.
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Original information: The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association’s featured speaker on October 11, 2023 at 11:00 am is Dr. Jerome Brodlie, who will talk about “Best Practices for Treating Catastrophic Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome.”
The program will also be shown on Webinar: https://bit.ly/30IBj21
Post-traumatic stress disorder was described in the writings of the ancient Greeks and following the Great Fire of London in 1666. After World War I, Americans became aware of “shell shock” and, after World War II, “combat fatigue” or “battle fatigue.” Following the Vietnam War, it was named “post-traumatic stress disorder” or PTSD. As is often true, its prevalence was found to be higher once its criteria were applied to the entire population.
Generally, the cause is trauma outside the range of the usual range of human experience, such as war, rape, torture, the Nazi Holocaust, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, earthquakes and other natural disasters, car and airplane crashes and violent crime.
Symptoms include anxiety, depression, insomnia, nightmares, flashbacks and a hyper arousal state. When these symptoms persist for over three months, the term PTSD is applied.
Dr. Jerome Brodlie practiced child and adolescent psychology in Greenwich for well over 50 years and is now retired. He had been a tenured professor in Connecticut State University and an adjunct professor at Yale University and appeared weekly on the CBS Morning News for several years. Additionally, he has been used as a resource by the U.S. State Department, primarily in Myanmar (Burma) and Sri Lanka, for treating the victims of catastrophic events including tidal waves, hurricanes, earthquakes and political imprisonment and torture. He has helped set up treatment protocols, has interacted with individual victims, and will discuss his experience today.
The RMA speaker on October 18: Diane Kelly and Noel Appel, “Greenwich Hospital Update”
The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association offers a free program everyWednesday that is open to the public, both men and women; no reservations are required. The RMA’s social break starts at 10:40 am followed promptly by the featured speaker at 11:00am.
Programs are at the First Presbyterian Church, 1 West Putnam Ave. in Greenwich. For additional information see www.greenwichrma.org.