The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Medical Shell Shock and Other Psychiatric Conditions
RCC8008
Hysterical Disorders of Wartime
ISBN
9789354180552
Purchase Price
£9.29 (new)
Date Purchased
December 8, 2020
Publisher
Alpha Editions (2020, Not Known)
Notes
This book was first published by Macmillan, London, in 1918. The version we have in the Collection is the modern public domain. There is a Preface by Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, Bt, who was a prominent British physician of the time, and also Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford. The book is written by a practitioner whose beliefs and methods have been largely discredited. Yealland did not consider shell shock an illness, and believed that men who showed such symptoms displayed a lack of discipline or sense of duty. He practised a form of therapy based on punishment. He gained a reputation for curing and sending his patients back to the trenches quickly. There is a very good, if horrifying, description of Yealland's procedures in Pat Barker's novel "Regeneration". (It's in the Collection!).
9789354180552
Purchase Price
£9.29 (new)
Date Purchased
December 8, 2020
Publisher
Alpha Editions (2020, Not Known)
Notes
This book was first published by Macmillan, London, in 1918. The version we have in the Collection is the modern public domain. There is a Preface by Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, Bt, who was a prominent British physician of the time, and also Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford. The book is written by a practitioner whose beliefs and methods have been largely discredited. Yealland did not consider shell shock an illness, and believed that men who showed such symptoms displayed a lack of discipline or sense of duty. He practised a form of therapy based on punishment. He gained a reputation for curing and sending his patients back to the trenches quickly. There is a very good, if horrifying, description of Yealland's procedures in Pat Barker's novel "Regeneration". (It's in the Collection!).