This text offers a variety of perspectives on mental trauma in war, medicine, culture, and society in modern European and American history. The book operates on the premise that the historical... (more)
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,... (more)
This title will be of considerable relevance to communities of readers interested in the history of psychiatry, war psychiatry, and hysteria. An original, lucid, well organised and superbly... (more)