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lesserjoke 's review for:
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
by Sebastian Junger
A short but intriguing read on how close social ties may help mitigate against depression, PTSD, and other mental conditions. I thought the author relied on several assumptions that a longer work could have better interrogated, but it's an interesting thesis with some reasonable support behind it (like lower rates of mental illness in non-industrialized nations as well as during times of crisis like the London Blitz when everyone is forced to pull together). War journalist Sebastian Junger makes some powerful points about how difficult it is for close-knit combat troops to reintegrate into our more isolated society, and of how a healthy community is one whose members feel connected to one another and to their overall way of life.