Hysterical men : war, psychiatry, and the politics of trauma in Germany, 1890-1930 /
Lerner, Paul Frederick.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press,
2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-318) and index.
pt. 1: Imperial origins: psychiatry and the politics of trauma.  Pathological modernity -- Mobilizing minds : German psychiatry goes to war -- pt. 2: War hysteria : diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation.  Long live hysteria! : the wartime trauma debate and the fall of Hermann Oppenheim -- The powers of suggestion : science, magic, and modernity in the therapeutic arsenal -- The worker-patient : the neurosis stations and the rationalization of psychiatric care -- The discovery of the mind : psychoanalytic responses to war hysteria -- pt.3: Aftermath : hysteria, trauma, memory.  Dictatorship of the psychopaths : psychiatrists and patients through defeat and revolution -- Pension war : nervous veterans and German memory in the Weimar Republic -- Conclusion.
War neuroses
Hysteria
Psychic trauma
Psychiatry
Psychiatry
World War, 1914-1918
Military psychiatry