A war of nerves : soldiers and psychiatrists in the twentieth century - Shephard, Ben, 1948- (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001)
Machine generated contents note: Prologue: The Shock of the Shell -- 1: Doctors' Minds -- 2: Shell-Shock in France -- 3: Trench Work -- 4: The Somme -- 5: Psychiatry at the Front, 1917-18 -- 6: Home Fires -- 7: Europeans -- 8: Arguments and Enigmas, 1917-18 -- 9: 'Skirting the Edges of Hell' -- 10: Inquests -- 11: 'Will Peace Bring Peace?' -- 12: The Lessons of Shell-Shock -- 13: Dunkirk, the Blitz and the Blue -- 14: 'We Can Save those Boys from Horror' -- 15: Front-line Psychiatry -- 16: New Ways of War -- 17: D-Day and After -- 18: A Tale of Two Hospitals -- 19: The Helmeted Airman -- 20: Learning from the Germans? -- 21: Prisoners of War -- 22: A Good War? -- 23: Vietnam Doctors -- 24: From Post-Vietnam Syndrome to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- 25: 'When the Patient Reports Atrocities -- 26: From the Falklands to the Gulf -- 27: The Culture of Trauma -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-473) and index.
Keywords: Military psychiatry -- History -- 20th century; Soldiers -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century; War neuroses -- History -- 20th century