Treating the Trauma of the Great War: Soldiers, Civilians, and Psychiatry in France, 1914-1940

by Gregory M. Thomas

From the outset of World War I, French doctors faced an apparent epidemic of puzzling neurological and psychiatric illnesses among soldiers. As they attempted to understand the causes of these illnesses, doctors organized specialized centers near the front, where they submitted soldiers to swift, humiliating treatments and then returned them to duty. At home, they interned the scores of civilians who succumbed to the war's strains in decrepit asylums...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807134368
• ISBN13: 9780807134368
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"