Report of the War Office Committee of Enquiry Into "Shell-Shock" - Couverture souple

 
9781783310173: Report of the War Office Committee of Enquiry Into "Shell-Shock"
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ISBN 10 : 1783310170 ISBN 13 : 9781783310173
Editeur : Naval and Military Press, 2014

Synopsis

The sheer number of cases of ‘Shell-shock’ thrown up by the hellish conditions of trench warfare in the Great War, forced the military authorities, for the first time, to take combat stress seriously. Early in the war, the mental effects of exposure to combat had been put down as ‘malingering’; ‘lack of moral fibre’; or even cowardice. However, gradually a more enlightened attitude prevailed and hospitals - such as Craiglockhart in Edinburgh where war poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were treated - were opened. Here, psychiatrists such as WHR Rivers dealt with the condition as a recognised medical problem. In many cases, neurasthenia - as combat stress was then called - only appeared after men returned home after the war. The numbers of cases of men applying for shell-shock disability pensions - 114,600 - forced the Government to set up an Enquiry committee in 1920 which reported in 1922. This is that official report. The committee, composed of doctors, military officers and Civil Servants, heard evidence from 59 expert witnesses, and its report encompassed the views of traditionalists who believed the condition resulted from physical damage to nerves, and more modern opinion, which thought the neurosis had emotional roots.

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The sheer number of cases of ‘Shell-shock’ thrown up by the hellish conditions of trench warfare in the Great War, forced the military authorities, for the first time, to take combat stress seriously. Early in the war, the mental effects of exposure to combat had been put down as ‘malingering’; ‘lack of moral fibre’; or even cowardice. However, gradually a more enlightened attitude prevailed and hospitals - such as Craiglockhart in Edinburgh where war poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were treated - were opened. Here, psychiatrists such as WHR Rivers dealt with the condition as a recognised medical problem. In many cases, neurasthenia - as combat stress was then called - only appeared after men returned home after the war. The numbers of cases of men applying for shell-shock disability pensions - 114,600 - forced the Government to set up an Enquiry committee in 1920 which reported in 1922. This is that official report. The committee, composed of doctors, military officers and Civil Servants, heard evidence from 59 expert witnesses, and its report encompassed the views of traditionalists who believed the condition resulted from physical damage to nerves, and more modern opinion, which thought the neurosis had emotional roots.

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Éditeur
Naval and Military Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1783310170
ISBN 13 
9781783310173
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
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ISBN 10 :  1901623661 ISBN 13 :  9781901623666
Editeur : Imperial War Museum, 2004
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