A War of Nerves
Subtitle: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: April 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780674005921
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Psychiatry; Warfare & Defence; History; Psychology; History: American; USA; Mental Illness; Military - General; Psychiatry - General; History / Military / General; 20th century; Military psychiatry; Psychological aspects; Soldiers; War neuroses
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."--BOOK JACKET.