A War of Nerves - Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century

science, which illuminates the bumpy efforts to understand the ravages of war on the human mind, and points towards the true lessons to be learned from treating the aftermath of war.

List of contents

Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Prologue: The Shock of the Shell 1. Doctors' Minds 2. Shell-Shock in France 3. Trench Work 4. The Somme 5. Psychiatry at the Front, 1917-18 6. Home Fires 7. Europeans 8. Arguments and Enigmas, 1917-18 9. 'Skirting the Edges of Hell' 10. Inquests 11. 'Will Peace Bring Peace?' 12. The Lessons of Shell-Shock 13. Dunkirk, the Blitz and the Blue 14. 'We Can Save those Boys from Horror' 15. Front-line Psychiatry 16. New Ways of War 17. D-Day and After 18. A Tale of Two Hospitals 19. The Helmeted Airman 20. Learning from the Germans? 21. Prisoners of War 22. A Good War? 23. Vietnam Doctors 24. From Post-Vietnam Syndrome to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 25. 'When the Patient Reports Atrocities...' 26. From the Falklands to the Gulf 27. The Culture of Trauma Notes Select Bibliography Index

About the author

Ben Shephard writes widely on psychiatry and its history. He was a producer on Thames Television's The World at War.

Summary

Ben Shephard provides a history of military psychiatry in the 20th century. It reaches back to the Western Front when modern war and medicine first met, and traces their relationship through the eras of shell-shock, combat fatigue and Gulf War syndrome.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Shephard, Shephard Ben
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2003
• EAN: 9780674011199
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01119-9
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 226 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Psychologie, HISTORY / Military / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / History, Psychiatry, Warfare & defence, Warfare and defence, MEDICAL / Military Medicine