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Author | : Suzie Grogan |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2014-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781592659 |
We know that millions of soldiers were scarred by their experiences in the First World War trenches, but what happened after they returned home? ??Suzie Grogan reveals the First World War's disturbing legacy for soldiers and their families. How did a nation of broken men, and 'spare' women cope? ??In 1922 the British Parliament published a report into the situation of thousands of 'service patients', or mentally ill ex-soldiers still in hospital. What happened to these men? Were they cured? What treatments were on offer? And what was the reception from their families and society? ??Drawing on a huge mass of original sources, Suzie Grogan answers all those questions, combining individual case studies with a narrative on wider events. Unpublished material from the archives shows the true extent of the trauma experienced by the survivors. This is a fresh perspective on the history of the post-war period, and the plight of a traumatised nation.
Author | : P. Leese |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2002-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230287921 |
To the British soldiers of the Great War who heard about it, 'shell shock' was uncanny, amusing and sad. To those who experienced it, the condition was shameful, unjustly stigmatized and life-changing. The first full-length study of the British 'shell shocked' soldiers of the Great War combines social and medical history to investigate the experience of psychological casualties on the Western Front, in hospitals, and through their postwar lives. It also investigates the condition's origin and consequences within British culture.
Author | : Austin Riede |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2019-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781940771656 |
Author | : Tracey Loughran |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107128900 |
This book provides a thought-provoking exploration into the diagnosis of shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain.
Author | : Fiona Reid |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2010-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847252419 |
A genuinely new insight into the lives of shell-shocked soldiers both during and after the Great War. >
Author | : Edgar Jones |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2005-09-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1135420572 |
The application of psychiatry to war and terrorism is highly topical and a source of intense media interest. Shell Shock to PTSD explores the central issues involved in maintaining the mental health of the armed forces and treating those who succumb to the intense stress of combat. Drawing on historical records, recent findings and interviews with veterans and psychiatrists, Edgar Jones and Simon Wessely present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of military psychiatry. The psychological disorders suffered by servicemen and women from 1900 to the present are discussed and related to contemporary medical priorities and health concerns. This book provides a thought-provoking evaluation of the history and practice of military psychiatry, and places its findings in the context of advancing medical knowledge and the developing technology of warfare. It will be of interest to practicing military psychiatrists and those studying psychiatry, military history, war studies or medical history.
Author | : Grafton Elliot Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Psychology, Pathological |
ISBN | : |
Author | : P. Leese |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137453372 |
To the British soldiers of the Great War who heard about it, 'shell shock' was uncanny, amusing and sad. To those who experienced it, the condition was shameful, unjustly stigmatized and life-changing. The first full-length study of the British 'shell shocked' soldiers of the Great War combines social and medical history to investigate the experience of psychological casualties on the Western Front, in hospitals, and through their postwar lives. It also investigates the condition's origin and consequences within British culture.
Author | : Fiona Reid |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441161449 |
Shell shock achieved a very high political profile in the years 1919-1922. Publications ranging from John Bull to the Morning Post insisted that shell-shocked men should be treated with respect, and the Minister for Health announced that the government was committed to protecting shell-shocked men from the stigma of lunacy. Yet at the same time, many mentally-wounded veterans were struggling with a pension system which was failing to give them security. It is this conflict between the political rhetoric and the lived experience of many wounded veterans that explains why the government was unable to dispel the negative wartime assessment of official shell-shock treatment. There was also a real conflict between the government's wish to forget shell shock whilst memorialising the war and remembering the war dead. As a result of these contradictions, shell shock was not forgotten, on the contrary, the shell-shocked soldier quickly grew to symbolise the confusions and inconsistencies of the Great War.
Author | : Charles S. Myers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110767378X |
This 1940 book by Charles S. Myers, Consulting Psychologist to the British Armies in the First World War, explains his work on shell shock.