Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain is a
thought-provoking reassessment of medical responses to war-related
psychological breakdown in the early twentieth century. Dr Loughran
places shell-shock within the historical context of British
psychological medicine to examine the intellectual resources
doctors drew on as they struggled to make sense of nervous
collapse. She reveals how medical approaches to shell-shock were
formulated within an evolutionary framework which viewed mental
breakdown as regression to a level characteristic of earlier stages
of individual or racial development, but also ultimately resulted
in greater understanding and acceptance of psychoanalytic
approaches to human mind and behaviour. Through its demonstration
of the crucial importance of concepts of mind-body relations,
gender, willpower and instinct to the diagnosis of shell-shock,
this book locates the disorder within a series of debates on human
identity dating back to the Darwinian revolution and extending far
beyond the medical sphere.
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