Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War

✍ Scribed by Jason Crouthamel, Peter Leese (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 338
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology. The essays explore the personal traumas of soldiers and civilians in the wake of the First World War; they also discuss how memory and representations of trauma are transmitted between patients, doctors and families across generations. The book argues that so far the traumatic effects of the war have been substantially underestimated. Trauma was shaped by gender, politics, and personality. To uncover the varied forms of trauma ignored by medical and political authorities, this volume draws on diverse sources, such as family archives and narratives by children of traumatized men, documents from film and photography, memoirs by soldiers and civilians. This innovative study challenges us to re-examine our approach to the complex psychological effects of the First World War.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Losing Face: Trauma and Maxillofacial Injury in the First World War....Pages 25-47
Screening Silent Resistance: Male Hysteria in First World War Medical Cinematography....Pages 49-79
“Always Had a Pronouncedly Psychopathic Predisposition”: The Significance of Class and Rank in First World War German Psychiatric Discourse....Pages 81-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Violence, Trauma and Memory in Ireland: The Psychological Impact of War and Revolution on a Liminal Society, 1916–1923....Pages 117-140
Gender, Memory and the Great War: The Politics of War Victimhood in Interwar Germany....Pages 141-164
Subjectivities in the Aftermath: Children of Disabled Soldiers in Britain After the Great War....Pages 165-191
“Entrenched from Life”: The Impossible Reintegration of Traumatized French Veterans of the Great War....Pages 193-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Making Sense of War Neurosis in Yugoslavia....Pages 217-235
“Everything Ruined, Which Seemed Most Stable in the World…”: The German Medical Profession, the First World War and the Road to the “Third Reich”....Pages 237-259
Violence and Starvation in First World War Psychiatry: Origins of the National Socialist ‘Euthanasia’ Program....Pages 261-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Toward A Global History of Trauma....Pages 289-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-335

✦ Subjects

History of Military;History of Medicine;Gender Studies

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