Shell Shocked Britain
The First World War's Legacy for Britain's Mental Health
Published on 31. October 2014
160 pages
978-1-4738-4062-1 (ISBN)
Description
We know that millions of soldiers were scarred by their experiences in the First World War trenches, but what happened after they returned home? **Suzie Grogan reveals the First World War's disturbing legacy for soldiers and their families. How did a nation of broken men, and 'spare' women cope? **In 1922 the British Parliament published a report into the situation of thousands of 'service patients', or mentally ill ex-soldiers still in hospital. What happened to these men? Were they cured? What treatments were on offer? And what was the reception from their families and society? **Drawing on a huge mass of original sources, Suzie Grogan answers all those questions, combining individual case studies with a narrative on wider events. Unpublished material from the archives shows the true extent of the trauma experienced by the survivors. This is a fresh perspective on the history of the post-war period, and the plight of a traumatised nation.
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Content
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 A Short History of Shell Shock
- Chapter 3 Science, Shrinks, Trickcyclists & Nutpickers: Curing the Shell Shocked
- Chapter 4 The Heroic Ideal & the Superfluous Woman
- Chapter 5 Suffer the Little Children: Protecting the Next Generations
- Chapter 6 An Anxious Society: The Many Causes of Lasting Trauma
- Chapter 7 Wild Laughter down Mafeking Street: the Armistice and Beyond
- Chapter 8 The Legacy of Shell Shock: 1914 to 2014
- Bibliography
- Archival Sources and Websites
