Charles Coleman

Charles Coleman, PhD began his long and distinguished career in mental healthcare early-on with his experiences working with Vietnam Vets committed to—and confined in—one of the Army’s only dedicated military psychiatric hospitals in the early ‘70s, as so graphically memorialized in his critically-acclaimed American cult-classic novel, Sergeant Back Again, (HarperCollins, 1980)—“The Vietnam War Novel that Made PTSD Real!.”

Andy From then on, he’s worked, taught, lived with, lectured and written about PTSD culminating in helping his friend and colleague, Andy Collins, PhD, to write about Andy’s own successes and failures in dealing with PTSD in this engaging, highly experimental, and wonderfully collaborative work you’re now about to read. The Gentling of Hanna Johansen: A Betrayal of Trust marks a watershed moment in portraying the devastating effects of social media, predatory influencers, and psychological trauma (PTSD+) on adolescents, particularly in the United States, which Charles and Andy define in the course of this novel as “the evolution of the uniquely American adolescent psychotype.”