Author: Charles S. MyersPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Shell Shock in France, 1914-1918
Author: Charles S. MyersShell Shock in France, 1914-1918
Author: Charles S. MyersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110767378X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This 1940 book by Charles S. Myers, Consulting Psychologist to the British Armies in the First World War, explains his work on shell shock.
Shell Shock in France, 1914-1918: Based on a War Diary Kept by Charles S. Myers
Author: Charles Samuel MyersPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Shell Shock in France, 1914-1918. Based on a War Diary Kept by C.S. Myers
Author: Charles Samuel MYERSPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Shell Shock in France, 1914-18
Author: Charles Samuel MyersPublisher:
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Category : Traumatic neuroses
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain
Author: Tracey LoughranPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316785254
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain is a thought-provoking reassessment of medical responses to war-related psychological breakdown in the early twentieth century. Dr Loughran places shell-shock within the historical context of British psychological medicine to examine the intellectual resources doctors drew on as they struggled to make sense of nervous collapse. She reveals how medical approaches to shell-shock were formulated within an evolutionary framework which viewed mental breakdown as regression to a level characteristic of earlier stages of individual or racial development, but also ultimately resulted in greater understanding and acceptance of psychoanalytic approaches to human mind and behaviour. Through its demonstration of the crucial importance of concepts of mind-body relations, gender, willpower and instinct to the diagnosis of shell-shock, this book locates the disorder within a series of debates on human identity dating back to the Darwinian revolution and extending far beyond the medical sphere.
Broken Men
Author: Fiona ReidPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826421032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
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.
The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars
Author: Gajendra SinghPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1780938209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial policemen? The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters, Gajendra Singh traces the evolution of military identities under the British Raj and considers how those identities became embattled in the praxis of soldiers' war testimonies – chiefly letters, depositions and interrogations. It becomes a story of mutiny and obedience; of horror, loss and silence. This book tells that story and is an important contribution to histories of the British Empire, South Asia and the two World Wars.
Shell Schock in France 1914-18
Author: Shell Shock to PTSD
Author: Edgar JonesPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135420580
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
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.