The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Medical Shell Shock and Other Psychiatric Conditions
Soldiers Don't Go Mad. A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry and Mental Illness During the First World War
ISBN
9781835010150
Purchase Price
£22.00 (new)
Date Purchased
March 22, 2024
Publisher
Bedford Square Publishers (2023, London)
Notes
This book is basically the story of Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh during the war years. Obviously, as such, a lot of attention is given to W.H. Rivers on the medical staff, and Sassoon and Owen amongst the patients. The book is well written and contains a great deal of interest for any researcher as to how troops were affected by their experiences, and what was done for them by the authorities. Craiglockhart was undoubtedly one of the best final destinations for these poor people with "shell-shock". WE would comment that this is probably one of the better books on "neurasthenia" in the Collection, even though this hospital was for officers only and the treatments were fairly advanced, compared with other hospitals which went in for electric shocking and so on. The author is American, but apart from a very few minor errors in his description of places especially - which can be forgiven, we think - his description of the subject is first class.
9781835010150
Purchase Price
£22.00 (new)
Date Purchased
March 22, 2024
Publisher
Bedford Square Publishers (2023, London)
Notes
This book is basically the story of Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh during the war years. Obviously, as such, a lot of attention is given to W.H. Rivers on the medical staff, and Sassoon and Owen amongst the patients. The book is well written and contains a great deal of interest for any researcher as to how troops were affected by their experiences, and what was done for them by the authorities. Craiglockhart was undoubtedly one of the best final destinations for these poor people with "shell-shock". WE would comment that this is probably one of the better books on "neurasthenia" in the Collection, even though this hospital was for officers only and the treatments were fairly advanced, compared with other hospitals which went in for electric shocking and so on. The author is American, but apart from a very few minor errors in his description of places especially - which can be forgiven, we think - his description of the subject is first class.