Drawing on a vast range of sources, this is a study of how war wounds men's minds and of medicine's efforts to heal the damage done. At once a historical narrative and ...

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 ...

From shell-shock to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the fascinating story of how psychiatrists have tried to keep men fighting. The first case of shell-shock arrived at the ...