Hundreds of thousands of US military personnel are returning from Iraq in the next few years. An estimated one-third of them suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. One of these is former Marine Blake Miller, pictured here after the 2004 Battle of Fallujah. You can read a story about him that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle here.

Our society did little to rehabilitate the veterans returning from Vietnam. The result was the reimportation back into a society of an entire generation of young men with emotional trauma. And society suffered the conseqences for decades afterwards, in the form of lives ruined by alcohol and drug addiction, mental illness, suicide, spousal abuse—to say nothing of the high emotional and medical costs borne by society as a whole.

We now face a stark choice. Will we repeat this mistake with our veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan? Or will we help them heal?

The Iraq Vets Stress Project is an initiative of Soul Medicine Institute (SMI), a nonprofit research and teaching institution. SMI studies a group of therapies called Energy Psychology, which have a proven track record in releasing emotional trauma. You can click here to read the story of a Vietnam vet with PTSD who had not been helped by years of conventional therapy, but whose symptoms disappeared dramatically and quickly after treatment with Energy Psychology. And here, you can read a story of a therapist who is using Energy Psychology to treat veterans and others suffering from PTSD.

This site lists therapists who treat veterans and their families at low or no cost. SMI also studies of the results of Energy Psychology treatments on PTSD and other emotional traumas.