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Psychological trauma and the legacies of the First World War / Jason Crouthamel, Peter Leese, editors.

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"This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology. The essays explore the personal traumas of soldiers and civilians in the wake of the First World War; they also discuss how memory and represent...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Corporate Author: Aftershock: Post-Traumatic Cultures Since the Great War (Conference)
Other Authors: Leese, Peter (Editor), Crouthamel, Jason (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: [Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland, [2017]
Subjects:
War neuroses.
World War, 1939-1945 > Psychological aspects.
War and society.
Psychic trauma > Social aspects.
Psychological aspects.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jason Crouthamel and Peter Leese
  • PART I: Battles over representations and perceptions of traumatized men. Losing face: trauma and maxillofacial injury in the First World War / Fiona Reid ; Screening silent resistance: male hysteria in First World War medical cinematography / Julia Barbara Köhne ; "Always had a pronouncedly psychopathic predisposition": the significance of class and rank in First World War German psychiatric discourse / Gundula Gahlen
  • PART II: Traumatized civilians in the wake of the Great War. Violence, trauma and memory in Ireland: the psychological impact of war and revolution on a liminal society, 1916-1923 / Justin Dolan Stover ; Gender, memory and the Great War: the politics of war victimhood in interwar Germany / Silke Fehlemann and Nils Löffelbein ; Subjectivities in the aftermath: children of disabled soldiers in Britain after the Great War / Michael Roper ; "Entrenched from life": the impossible reintegration of traumatized French veterans of the Great War / Marie Derrien
  • PART III: Traumatized medical cultures. Making sense of war neurosis in Yugoslavia / Heike Karge ; "Everything ruined, which seemed most stable in the world ... ": the German medical profession, the First World War and the road to the "Third Reich" / Livia Prüll ; Violence and starvation in First World War psychiatry: origins of the National Socialist "euthanasia" program / Philipp Rauh
  • PART IV: A coda on trauma. Toward a global history of trauma / Mark S. Micale.

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