The following is a an introduction provided by a reviewer on the ideas presented on www.warriorhealingcenter.com Dr. Timothy Kirk, Colonel, USAF (Ret), and Mrs. Cathie Goodman, RN, bring an unusual combination of credentials to the challenge of veteran suicide: a PhD in Military Strategy from the Air Force's elite School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, practical clinical experience in nursing and critical care, information management with complex systems, combat experience

By Dr. Tim Kirk A Century of Expansion, a Nation in Crisis In 1900, Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams , a book that claimed to reveal the hidden logic of human behavior. In 2025, more than a century later, the United States stands amid a mental-health epidemic despite record levels of access, awareness, and expenditure. Nearly one in four adults—some 60 million people—now experience mental illness each year, and rates of depression and anxiety continue to r

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