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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11975955.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-473) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 487 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0674005929".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog subject "616.89/0088/355 21".
- catalog subject "Combat disorders History.".
- catalog subject "Military personnel History.".
- catalog subject "Military personnel Psychology.".
- catalog subject "Military psychiatry History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Military psychiatry History.".
- catalog subject "RC550 .S535 2001".
- catalog subject "Soldiers Psychological aspects History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "WM 11.1 S548 2001".
- catalog subject "War neuroses History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "A war of nerves : soldiers and psychiatrists in the twentieth century / Ben Shephard.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".