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Shell Shock and Its Lessons

by G. Elliot Smith and T. H. Pear

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Two scientists who worked with traumatised soldiers explain what shell shock is, how it should and should not be treated, and why psychological analysis and re-education worked better than isolation or neglect. They argue that the war’s lessons should change how Britain treated mental illness in peacetime too.

An important document in the history of psychiatry and of the First World War. Download the free EPUB.

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