Madness and the Military
Subtitle: Australia's Experience of Shell Shock in the Great War
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781925984460
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder; Psychology, pathological; World war, 1914-1918
Description: In this logical sequel to his Gallipoli: The Medical War (1993), Michael Tyquin deals with war neurosis or 'shell shock' as it was commonly called for many years after the First World War. In doing so he breaks new ground; the psychological casualties, the mental debris, of that war have been largely forgotten in ways and for reasons he explores and reveals.