Psychological trauma and the legacies of the First World War / Jason Crouthamel, Peter Leese, editors.

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English
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[Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland, [2017]
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xvi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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    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.
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    • "This volume has its origins in scholarship presented at the conference 'Aftershock : post-traumatic cultures since the Great War' held at the University of Copenhagen in May 2013"--Page v.
    • Companion volume to: Traumatic memories of the Second World War and after.
    • Includes biographical notes on the contributors.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Jason Crouthamel and Peter Leese
    • PART I: Battles over representations and perceptions of traumatized men. Losing face : trauma and maxillofacial injury in the First World War / Fiona Reid
    • Screening silent resistance : male hysteria in First World War medical cinematography / Julia Barbara Köhne
    • "Always had a pronouncedly psychopathic predisposition" : the significance of class and rank in First World War German psychiatric discourse / Gundula Gahlen
    • PART II: Traumatized civilians in the wake of the Great War. Violence, trauma and memory in Ireland : the psychological impact of war and revolution on a liminal society, 1916-1923 / Justin Dolan Stover
    • Gender, memory and the Great War : the politics of war victimhood in interwar Germany / Silke Fehlemann and Nils Löffelbein
    • Subjectivities in the aftermath : children of disabled soldiers in Britain after the Great War / Michael Roper
    • "Entrenched from life" : the impossible reintegration of traumatized French veterans of the Great War / Marie Derrien
    • PART III: Traumatized medical cultures. Making sense of war neurosis in Yugoslavia / Heike Karge
    • "Everything ruined, which seemed most stable in the world ..." : the German medical profession, the First World War and the road to the "Third Reich" / Livia Prüll
    • Violence and starvation in First World War psychiatry : origins of the National Socialist "euthanasia" program / Philipp Rauh
    • PART IV: A coda on trauma. Toward a global history of trauma / Mark S. Micale.
    Other title(s)
    Traumatic memories of the Second World War and after.
    ISBN
    • 9783319334752 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 3319334751 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 331933476X
    • 9783319334769
    LCCN
    2016954974
    OCLC
    966485395
    International Article Number
    • 9783319334752
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