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Aberration of Mind - Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South (Hardcover)
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Aberration of Mind - Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South (Hardcover)
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More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand
the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the
psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane
Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of
suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight
into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and
their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed. With a
thorough examination of the dynamics of both racial and gendered
dimensions of psychological distress, Sommerville reveals how the
suffering experienced by southerners living in a war zone generated
trauma that, in extreme cases, led some southerners to contemplate
or act on suicidal thoughts. Sommerville recovers previously hidden
stories of individuals exhibiting suicidal activity or aberrant
psychological behavior she links to the war and its aftermath. This
work adds crucial nuance to our understanding of how personal
suffering shaped the way southerners viewed themselves in the Civil
War era and underscores the full human costs of war.
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