Stefanie Linden

They Called It Shell Shock

Combat Stress in the First World War. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 274 Seiten
ISBN 1804516376
EAN 9781804516379
Veröffentlicht August 2024
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"They called it Shell Shock provides a new perspective on the psychological reactions to the traumatic experiences of combat. In the Great War, soldiers were incapacitated by traumatic disorders at an epidemic scale that surpassed anything known from previous armed conflicts. Drawing upon individual histories from British and German servicemen, this book illustrates the universal suffering of soldiers involved in this conflict and its often devastating consequences for their mental health. Dr Stefanie Linden explains how shell shock challenged the fabric of pre-war society, including its beliefs about gender (superiority of the male character), class (superiority of the officer class) and scientific progress. She argues that the shell shock epidemic had enduring consequences for the understanding of the human mind and the power that it can exert over the body."

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Dr Stefanie Linden is a psychiatrist, mental health researcher and historian of psychiatry. She is currently a Clinical Research Fellow at Cardiff University and completed a PhD at King's College London on the Functional Disorders of the Great War. She has also researched the history of psychiatry during the religious revival in North Wales and the history of women's mental health.

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