Author : Elmer Ernest Southard
Publisher :
Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Military psychiatry
ISBN :
Describes the events surrounding the bloody confrontation between Union and Confederate troops in the Maryland countryside on September 17, 1862.
Author : Elmer Ernest Southard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752431539
Reproduction of the original: Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems by Elmer Ernest Southard
Author : P. Leese
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 2002-07-12
Category : 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 : A D (Sandy) Macleod
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1527539156
Shell shock was the signature injury of the First World War. Military doctors during the conflict on the Western Front observed and personally experienced psychiatric states they had never witnessed before. This text reviews the published medical literature of that era which graphically detailed the clinical states of hysteria (conversion disorder) and neurasthenia (anxiety and PTSD). Medical officers at the front evolved pragmatic medicinal, cognitive and behavioural interventions, still practised today, though never scientifically proven to be effective. The doctors, like their patients, endured numerous horrors at the front, which were, for many, to influence their post-war personal and professional lives. Much of what they wrote was forgotten and deserves reconsideration. Neuropsychiatry was founded in the shell craters of Flanders.
Author : Edgar Jones
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : 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 : Tracey Loughran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1316785254
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.
Author : Anton Kaes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 2009-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0691031363
'Shell Shock Cinema' shows how classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I & the trauma of Germany's humiliating defeat. Anton Kaes argues that even films which do not depict war reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock.
Author : Mark S. Micale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2001-09-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521583659
The essays in this book trace the origins of ongoing heated debates regarding trauma.
Author : Mabel Webster Brown
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 1918
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Stefanos Geroulanos
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 022655662X
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? In The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe, Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers uncover a fascinating story of how medical scientists came to conceptualize the body as an integrated yet brittle whole. Responding to the harrowing experience of the Great War, the medical community sought conceptual frameworks to understand bodily shock, brain injury, and the vast differences in patient responses they occasioned. Geroulanos and Meyers carefully trace how this emerging constellation of ideas became essential for thinking about integration, individuality, fragility, and collapse far beyond medicine: in fields as diverse as anthropology, political economy, psychoanalysis, and cybernetics. Moving effortlessly between the history of medicine and intellectual history, The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe is an intriguing look into the conceptual underpinnings of the world the Great War ushered in.
