By Claire Mura (Autumn 2020 student)
Although it is common knowledge that shell shock, now known as PTSD, afflicted many soldiers during World War I, not much is known about their lives after the war. This podcast sheds light on the subject, and unveils a poorly constructed government support system that left many suffering veterans in local asylums.
Listen to Shell Shock After World War I here.
Bibliography:
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- Jones, Edgar. “War Neuroses and Arthur Hurst: A Pioneering Medical Film about the Treatment of Psychiatric Battle Casualties”. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, (67:3), (July 2012), 345-373. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrr015
- Loughran, Tracey. “Shell-shock”. British Library, (November 7, 2018). https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/shell-shock
- Macleod, A. D. “Abrupt Treatments of Hysteria During World War I, 1914–18”. History of Psychiatry 29:2, (February 2018). https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X18757338
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