Precocious Greying and War Neuroses

Lectures on War Neuroses

Lectures on War Neuroses

Very little that is new about War Neuroses emerged during the first eighteen months of the present struggle. Wars change their pattern. Medicine progresses by fits and starts. And no one is yet entitled to say in what way, if at all, concepts of mental illness will be modified by the experiences of the present war years. Dr. Ross, whose sudden death occurred just after this small book went to p...

The Neuroses in War

vidual's personality and background, the precipitating factor is the stress of war and the object of treatment is to return the man fit to continue service. Suggestion, and hypnoanalysis are practical methods which had good results in the last war and with members of the Services collective hypnosis is a time-saving device. The need to reveal to the patient the meaning of his symptoms and their...

Some Neuroses of the War

War neuroses and Arthur Hurst: a pioneering medical film about the treatment of psychiatric battle casualties.

From 1917 to 1918, Major Arthur Hurst filmed shell-shocked patients home from the war in France. Funded by the Medical Research Committee, and using Pathé cameramen, he recorded soldiers who suffered from intractable movement disorders as they underwent treatment at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Netley and undertook programs of occupational therapy at Seale Hayne in Devon. As one of the earlie...