Author: Grafton Elliot Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology, Pathological
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Shell Shock and Its Lessons
Author: Grafton Elliot Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology, Pathological
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology, Pathological
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Shell shock and its lessons
Author: Sir Grafton Elliot Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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The Poetry of Shell Shock
Author: Daniel Hipp
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786421746
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The British poets Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, and Siegfried Sassoon found themselves psychologically altered by what they experienced in the First World War. Owen was hospitalized in April 1917 for "shell shock" in Scotland, where he met Siegfried Sassoon in June of that year, hospitalized for the same affliction. Ivor Gurney found the war, ironically, to have been a place of relative stability within an otherwise tormented life; When he was wounded during the war's final year, his doctors observed signs of mental illness, which evolved into incapacitating psychosis by 1922. For each of these men--all poets before the war--poetry served as a way to inscribe continuity into their lives, enabling them to retaliate against the war's propensity to render the lives of the participants discontinuous. Poetry allowed them to return to the war through memory and imagination, and poetry helped them to bring themselves back from psychological breakdown to a state of stability, based upon a relationship to the war that their literary war enabled them to create and discover. This work investigates the ways in which the poetry of war functioned as a means for these three men to express the inexpressible and to extract value out of the experience of war. Bibliography and index are also included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786421746
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The British poets Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, and Siegfried Sassoon found themselves psychologically altered by what they experienced in the First World War. Owen was hospitalized in April 1917 for "shell shock" in Scotland, where he met Siegfried Sassoon in June of that year, hospitalized for the same affliction. Ivor Gurney found the war, ironically, to have been a place of relative stability within an otherwise tormented life; When he was wounded during the war's final year, his doctors observed signs of mental illness, which evolved into incapacitating psychosis by 1922. For each of these men--all poets before the war--poetry served as a way to inscribe continuity into their lives, enabling them to retaliate against the war's propensity to render the lives of the participants discontinuous. Poetry allowed them to return to the war through memory and imagination, and poetry helped them to bring themselves back from psychological breakdown to a state of stability, based upon a relationship to the war that their literary war enabled them to create and discover. This work investigates the ways in which the poetry of war functioned as a means for these three men to express the inexpressible and to extract value out of the experience of war. Bibliography and index are also included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Shell Shock
Author: P. Leese
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230287921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230287921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Report of the War Office Committee of Enquiry Into "Shell-shock" (cmd. 1734)
Author: Great Britain. War Office. Committee of Enquiry into "Shell-shock."
Publisher: Imperial War Museum
ISBN: 9781901623666
Category : Combat
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher: Imperial War Museum
ISBN: 9781901623666
Category : Combat
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Shell Shock to PTSD
Author: Edgar Jones
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135420572
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135420572
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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.
A War of Nerves
Author: Ben Shephard
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674011199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
This is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century. Both absorbing historical narrative and intellectual detective story, it weaves literary, medical, and military lore to give us a fascinating history of war neuroses and their treatment, from the World Wars through Vietnam and up to the Gulf War.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674011199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
This is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century. Both absorbing historical narrative and intellectual detective story, it weaves literary, medical, and military lore to give us a fascinating history of war neuroses and their treatment, from the World Wars through Vietnam and up to the Gulf War.
Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004333592
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This innovative collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Leading scholars in the field working on a variety of geographical, temporal, socio-cultural, economic and political contexts, show how class and gender have historically affected and conditioned the thinking, language, and processes according to which society identified and responded to the mentally ill. Contributors to this volume focus on both class and gender and thus are able to explore their interaction, whereas previous publications addressed class or gender incidentally, partially, or in isolation. By adopting this dual focus as its unifying theme, the volume is able to supply new insights into such interesting topics as patient careers, the relationship between lay and professional knowledge of insanity, the boundaries of professional power, and the creation of psychiatric knowledge. Particularly useful to student readers (and to those new to this academic field) is a substantive and accessible introduction to existing scholarship in the field, which signposts the ways in which this collection challenges, adjusts and extends previous perspectives.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004333592
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This innovative collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Leading scholars in the field working on a variety of geographical, temporal, socio-cultural, economic and political contexts, show how class and gender have historically affected and conditioned the thinking, language, and processes according to which society identified and responded to the mentally ill. Contributors to this volume focus on both class and gender and thus are able to explore their interaction, whereas previous publications addressed class or gender incidentally, partially, or in isolation. By adopting this dual focus as its unifying theme, the volume is able to supply new insights into such interesting topics as patient careers, the relationship between lay and professional knowledge of insanity, the boundaries of professional power, and the creation of psychiatric knowledge. Particularly useful to student readers (and to those new to this academic field) is a substantive and accessible introduction to existing scholarship in the field, which signposts the ways in which this collection challenges, adjusts and extends previous perspectives.
Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War
Author: Peter Barham
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300125115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This is a poignant, sometimes ribald, history of the rank-and-file servicemen who were psychiatric casualties of World War One.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300125115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This is a poignant, sometimes ribald, history of the rank-and-file servicemen who were psychiatric casualties of World War One.
Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain
Author: Tracey Loughran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107128900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book provides a thought-provoking exploration into the diagnosis of shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107128900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book provides a thought-provoking exploration into the diagnosis of shell-shock and medical culture in First World War Britain.