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Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain (2017)

Loughran, Tracey (Author)

Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2017
Language: English

ISBN: 9781107128903

Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 290

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Psychology Medicine and the military; medicine in war War neuroses Mental disorders and diseases Medicine World War I Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 20th century, early Great Britain

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.

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Review Peter Leese (2020) Review of "Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 166-168). unapi

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