War psychiatry

Chapter 17 War Psychiatry The Prisoner of War

War Psychiatry 432 Artist Unknown Prisoner Interrogation circa 1943 This sketch is part of an extensive collection of captured German art from World War II in the possession of the U.S. Army Center for Military History. It graphically depicts the questioning of barefoot prisoners of war in what appears to be an underground bunker.

War Psychiatry | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)

During the First World War soldiers from all combatant nations suffered from a wide range of debilitating nervous complaints as a result of the stresses and strains of modern warfare. War psychiatrists struggled to manage these complaints and shell-shocked men struggled to ensure that they had decent treatment and proper pensions. In each country the politics of shell shock differed but, regard...

Lessons of the War for Psychiatry

The Shaping of Psychiatry by War

The Shaping of Psychiatry by War. By J. R. Rees. Chapman & Hall. Pp. 158. 10s. 6d. The developments of psychiatry during this war have not been of the nature expected by many people who remember the experiences of the last war. During 1914-18 we saw the virtual emergence of analytical technique which resulted from the vast opportunities ?f application to the very great numbers of war neuroses ^...

Military Psychiatry in Peace and War

lost ten millions of its best lives as a result of the exclusion of the intellect from the general direction of society, and although the furious rush of normal and intellectual energy which the war called into being is already reduced to a mere trickle in comparison, there is every reason to hope that the medical profession of Great Britain, if not its general public also, is at last about to ...