Title: Shell shock to PTSD :
Authors: Jones, Edgar,; Wessely, Simon.
Date: 2005
Publisher: Psychology Press,
Physical description: xvii, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: U
Abstract: This title provides a thought-provoking evaluation of the history and practice of military psychiatry and places its findings in the context of advancing medical knowledge and the developing technology of warfare.
Contents: Pre-1914 British military psychiatry -- Shell shock and the war neurosescan expeditionary force -- Military psychiatry in the interwar period -- Treatment and outcomes during World War Two -- Screening and selection -- Post-1945 : Korea, Vietnam and the Falklands -- War pensions and veterans' pressure groups -- PTSD : incidence and treatment in the military -- War syndromes.
Subject headings (LCSH): Military psychiatry--Great Britain--History.; Military psychiatry--History.