Traumatic Pasts
Subtitle: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 18701930 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
Contributors: Mark S. Micale (Editor); Paul Lerner (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 4, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521583657
Subjects: Clinical psychology; History of medicine; Psychology; Trauma & shock; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Medical / Nursing; Psychiatry (General); Psychoneuroses; Psychic trauma; Medical; Germany; Italy; USA; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Psychiatry; Essays; Psychiatry - General; Medical / History; Psychic trauma--History; Psychopathology - General; 19th century; History
First sentence: In light of the catastrophes and cataclysms that have marked twentieth-century history, it is scarcely surprising that trauma has emerged as a highly visible and widely invoked concept.