Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930

by Paul Lerner

Book Overview

Paul Lerner traces the intertwined histories of trauma and male hysteria in German society and psychiatry and shows how these concepts were swept up into debates about Germany's national health, economic productivity, and military strength in the years surrounding World War I. From a growing concern with industrial accidents in the 1880s through the shell shock epidemic of the war, male hysteria seemed to bespeak the failings of German masculinity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801475368
• ISBN13: 9780801475368
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher