This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology. The essays explore the personal traumas of soldiers and civilians in the wake of the First World War; they also discuss how memory and representations of trauma are transmitted between patients, doctors and families across generations. The book argues that so far the traumatic effects of the war have been substantially underestimated. Trauma was shaped by gender, politics, and personality. To uncover the varied forms of trauma ignored by medical and political authorities, this volume draws on diverse sources, such as family archives and narratives by children of traumatized men, documents from film and photography, memoirs by soldiers and civilians. This innovative study challenges us to re-examine our approach to the complex psychological effects of the First World War.
.Introduction Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University) and Peter Leese (University of Copenhagen).-
.Part I: Battles over Representations and Perceptions of Traumatized Men.-
.1. Losing Face: trauma and maxillofacial injury in the First World War Fiona Reid (University of South Wales).-
.2. Male Hysterics: Screening Silent Resistance -- Subtle Agency in European Cinematography of War Hysteria in the First World War Julia Barbara K?hne (Humboldt University, Berlin).-
.3. Always had a pronouncedly psychopathic predisposition . The Significance of Social Class and Military Rank in the German Psychiatric Discourse on Officers Neuroses in the First World War Gundula Gahlen (Free University, Berlin).-
.Part II: Traumatized Civilians in the Wake of the Great War.-
.4. Violence, Trauma, and Memory in Ireland: the Psychological Impact of War and RevolutilC+
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