In the wake of World War I, some veterans returned wounded, but not with obvious physical injuries. Instead, their symptoms were similar to those that had previously been associated with hysterical ...
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In late 1917, a British woman named Elizabeth Huntley decapitated her own daughter. When the case went to trial, her friends and family testified that she had been a "jolly-hearted woman"—that is, ...
Upon the end of the Great War in 1918, soldiers and nurses returned to their homes on either side of the Atlantic. Although no longer actively engaged in fighting, they still suffered the traumatic ...
This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust (Ph.D. Studentship, Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College London). During World War I, severe post-traumatic reactions reached an epidemic ...
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Writing in 2007 about Traumatic Brain Injuries, Washington Post reporter Ronald Glasser declared that improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq had “brought back one of the worst afflictions of ...
Long before online quizzes and Myers-Briggs, Robert Woodworth’s “Psychoneurotic Inventory” tried to assess recruits’ susceptibility to shell shock Lila Thulin - Former Associate Editor, Special ...