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Book Review

FORGOTTEN LUNATICS OF THE GREAT WAR

By Peter Barham

2004. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Price £19.99

ISBN 1-098-76543-2

HYSTERICAL MEN, WAR, PSYCHIATRY, AND THE POLITICS OF TRAUMA IN GERMANY, 1890–1930

By Paul Lerner

2003. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Price £23.95

ISBN 0-801-44094-7

MEDICINE AND VICTORY, BRITISH MILITARY MEDICINE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

By Mark Harrison

2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Price £45.99

ISBN 0-199-26859-2

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

‘War and Mental Health: shell shock, battle exhaustion and PTSD’




Although much has been written about the effect of war on soldiers who are essentially sane, those who were driven mad by the experience have been neglected. Peter Barham has addressed this issue in a scrupulous and heartfelt study. He has researched the lives of soldiers who became psychotic during World War I, exploring how they were handled first by military medical authorities and later when absorbed within the traditional asylum system or discharged to the care of the Ministry of Pensions. Whilst politicians and the press highlighted the case of the shell-shocked veteran, who as a result of administrative failures found himself stigmatized as a lunatic, soldiers who were psychotic and remained in institutional care were largely forgotten by society and by scholars subsequently. Evidence about these service patients is scattered and difficult to find. Barham has carefully pieced together accounts from a wide range of sources and produced . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Edgar Jones

Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London


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