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Fighting Sleep - The War for the Mind and the US Military (Hardcover)
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Fighting Sleep - The War for the Mind and the US Military (Hardcover)
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On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the
National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by
daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in
public while demonstrating against the war. When the Supreme Court
denied their petition, they decided to break the law and turned
sleep into a form of direct action. During and after the Second
World War, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an
epidemic of "combat fatigue." Inducing deep and twilight sleep in
clinical settings, they studied the effects of war violence on the
mind and developed the techniques of brainwashing that would
weaponize both memory and sleep. In the Vietnam War era, radical
veterans reclaimed the authority to interpret their own traumatic
symptoms-nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia-and pioneered new methods
of protest. In Fighting Sleep, Franny Nudelman recounts the
struggle over sleep in the postwar world, revealing that sleep was
instrumental to the development of military science, professional
psychiatry, and antiwar activism. Traversing the fields of military
and mainstream psychiatry, popular and institutional film,
documentary sound technology, brain warfare, and postwar social
movements, she demonstrates that sleep-far from being passive,
empty, or null-is a site of contention and a source of political
agency.
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