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Psychological Consequences of the American Civil War (Paperback)
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Psychological Consequences of the American Civil War (Paperback)
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Wars do not end with peace. When America's Civil War was over it
set the stage for another, more enduring conflict, as a fractured
society confronted the lingering psychological consequences that
followed the four brutal years of deprivation, distrust, and death.
The enemy was intangible, lurking in the minds of the war's
survivors. Like any great conflict, the battles raged back and
forth, as the war weary fought the mental demons. Silenced by
stigma and shame, the suffering of the War's survivors surfaced in
statistics as the rates of depression, suicide, insanity, crime,
and cults climbed. For others, alcohol abuse or a morally suitable
misuse of patent medicines relieved the daily distress. Dispirited
and distrustful survivors spurned traditional religion and medical
practice and sought solace from shady spiritualists and duplicitous
doctors dispensing phony panaceas. Epic battles fought across
America's landscape inspired countless books on the guts and glory
of war but the lingering emotional consequences of conflict are
neither glamorous nor visible, making this book unique in its
comprehensive coverage of an often ignored cost of conflict.
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