| Description |
xxiii, 487 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"A War of Nerves is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century - an authoritative, accessible account drawing on a vast range of diaries, interviews, medical papers, and official records, from doctors as well as ordinary soldiers. It reaches back to the moment when the technologies of modern warfare and the disciplines of psychology and medicine first confronted each other on the Western Front, and traces their uneasy relationship through the eras of shell-shock, combat fatigue, and post-traumatic stress disorder."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [469]-473) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Military psychiatry -- History -- 20th century.
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Soldiers -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century.
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War neuroses -- History -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
00066367 |
| ISBN |
0674005929 |
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