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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Leese, Peter, editor.

Crouthamel, Jason, editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Conference Name:

Aftershock: Post-Traumatic Cultures Since the Great War (Conference) (2013 : Copenhagen, Denmark)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War neuroses--Congresses.

War neuroses.

World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects--Congresses.

World War, 1939-1945.

War and society--Congresses.

War and society.

Psychic trauma--Social aspects--Congresses.

Psychic trauma.

Psychic trauma--Social aspects.

Psychological aspects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Aftershock : post-traumatic cultures since the Great War.

Place of Publication:

[Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

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.

Notes:

"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 bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9783319334752

3319334751

OCLC:

966485395

Publisher Number:

99970834372

9783319334752