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A war of nerves : soldiers and psychiatrists, 1914-1994 (Record no. 80081)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0712667830
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780712667838
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Shephard, Ben
245 #2 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A war of nerves : soldiers and psychiatrists, 1914-1994
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pimlico
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2002
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 487 p. ; 8 pages of b&w illustrations
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. A War of Nerves is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century - an authoritative, accessible account drawing on a vast range of diaries, interviews, medical papers and official records. It reaches back to the moment when the technologies of modern warfare and the disciplines of mental medicine first confronted each other on the Western Front, and traces their uneasy relationship through the eras of 'shell-shock', combat fatigue and 'post-traumatic stress disorder'. At once absorbing historical narrative and intellectual detective story, it tells the full story of 'shell-shock'; explains the disastrous psychological aftermath of Vietnam; and shows how psychiatrists kept men fighting in Burma. But it also tries to answer recurring questions about the effects of war. Why do some men crack and others not? Are the limits of resistance determined by character, heredity, upbringing, ideology or simple biochemistry? It explores the ethical dilemmas of the military psychiatrist - the 'machine gun behind the front', as Freud called him. Finally, it looks at the modern culture of 'trauma' and compensation spawned by the Vietnam War.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element MILITARY MEDICINE, history
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC
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650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element MILITARY PSYCHIATRY
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        Croydon Health Services Library Croydon Health Services Library Shelves 20/12/2022   WM 170 SHE CR0000013166 20/12/2022 20/12/2022 Book National Library of Medicine
        Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves 06/01/2011   WM 110 SHE 15086 29/09/2022 29/09/2022 Book  
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