The Resiliency Trade

The Pentagon is institutionalizing resiliency, referring to a soldier’s ability to shake off the horrors of war and go back and experience them again (it has become such a buzzword that the Army has changed the name of its once-heralded Battlemind program to Resilience Training). Over at the Time Ideas blog, learning scholar Annie Murphy Paul checks in with the Army’s main resiliency program led by University of Pennsylvania professor Martin Seligman.