Essay Review: Making shell‐shock

Abstract

Shell‐shock. A history of changing attitudes to war neurosis. By Anthony Babbington. From shellshock to combat stress. A comparative history of military psychology. By Hans Binneveld. Shell shock. The psychological impact of war. By Wendy Holden. The harmony of illusions. Inventing post‐traumatic stress disorder. By Allan Young.

Consciousness industrialized: Reflections on Ben Shephard's ‘A war of nerves’

“…(On A War of Nerves see also : Lerner, 2001;Leese, 2004. For earlier, related literature, see Leese, 2001.) Shephard describes soldiers in war and on the medical ward: their experiences in combat, their emotional and psychological responses to it, and the traumata that result from it.…”