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A war of nerves : soldiers and psychiatrists in the twentieth century, Ben Shephard

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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."--Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xxiii, 487 p., [8] p. of plates
Contents
  • Prologue: the shock of the shell
  • Doctors' minds
  • Shell-shock in France
  • Trench work
  • The Somme
  • Psychiatry at the front, 1917-18
  • Home fires
  • Europeans
  • Arguments and enigmas, 1917-18
  • 'Skirting the edges of hell'
  • Inquests
  • 'Will peace bring peace?'
  • The lessons of shell-shock
  • Dunkirk, the blitz and the blue
  • 'We can save those boys from horror'
  • Front-line psychiatry
  • New ways of war
  • D-day and after
  • A tale of two hospitals
  • The helmeted airman
  • Learning from the Germans?
  • prisoners of war
  • A good war?
  • Vietnam doctors
  • From post-Vietnam syndrome to post-traumatic stress disorder
  • 'When the patient reports atrocities ...
  • From the Falklands to the Gulf
  • The culture of trauma
  • Notes
Isbn
9780674011199
Instance
Label
A war of nerves : soldiers and psychiatrists in the twentieth century
Title
A war of nerves
Title remainder
soldiers and psychiatrists in the twentieth century
Statement of responsibility
Ben Shephard
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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."--Jacket
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1948-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Shephard, Ben
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
RC550
LC item number
.S535 2001
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
WM 11.1 S548 2001
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Military psychiatry
  • Soldiers
  • War neuroses
  • Military Psychiatry
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Combat Disorders
  • Troubles psychiques liés à la guerre
  • Personnel militaire
  • Personnel militaire
  • Military psychiatry
  • Soldiers
  • War neuroses
  • Psychiatrie militaire
  • Soldats
  • Militärpsychiatrie
  • Soldat
  • Krieg
  • Posttraumatisches Stresssyndrom
  • Psychiatrische Versorgung
  • Kriegsneurose
Label
A war of nerves : soldiers and psychiatrists in the twentieth century, Ben Shephard
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-473) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: the shock of the shell -- Doctors' minds -- Shell-shock in France -- Trench work -- The Somme -- Psychiatry at the front, 1917-18 -- Home fires -- Europeans -- Arguments and enigmas, 1917-18 -- 'Skirting the edges of hell' -- Inquests -- 'Will peace bring peace?' -- The lessons of shell-shock -- Dunkirk, the blitz and the blue -- 'We can save those boys from horror' -- Front-line psychiatry -- New ways of war -- D-day and after -- A tale of two hospitals -- The helmeted airman -- Learning from the Germans? -- prisoners of war -- A good war? -- Vietnam doctors -- From post-Vietnam syndrome to post-traumatic stress disorder -- 'When the patient reports atrocities ... -- From the Falklands to the Gulf -- The culture of trauma -- Notes
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xxiii, 487 p., [8] p. of plates
Isbn
9780674011199
Lccn
00066367
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (OCoLC)45460875
  • (OCoLC)ocm45460875
Label
A war of nerves : soldiers and psychiatrists in the twentieth century, Ben Shephard
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-473) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: the shock of the shell -- Doctors' minds -- Shell-shock in France -- Trench work -- The Somme -- Psychiatry at the front, 1917-18 -- Home fires -- Europeans -- Arguments and enigmas, 1917-18 -- 'Skirting the edges of hell' -- Inquests -- 'Will peace bring peace?' -- The lessons of shell-shock -- Dunkirk, the blitz and the blue -- 'We can save those boys from horror' -- Front-line psychiatry -- New ways of war -- D-day and after -- A tale of two hospitals -- The helmeted airman -- Learning from the Germans? -- prisoners of war -- A good war? -- Vietnam doctors -- From post-Vietnam syndrome to post-traumatic stress disorder -- 'When the patient reports atrocities ... -- From the Falklands to the Gulf -- The culture of trauma -- Notes
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xxiii, 487 p., [8] p. of plates
Isbn
9780674011199
Lccn
00066367
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (OCoLC)45460875
  • (OCoLC)ocm45460875

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