War Neuroses and Arthur Hurst: A Pioneering Medical Film about the Treatment of Psychiatric Battle Casualties

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...

German Battle Casualties: The Treatment of Functional Somatic Disorders during World War I

World War I witnessed the admission of large numbers of German soldiers with neurological symptoms for which there was no obvious organic cause. This posed a considerable challenge for the military and medical authorities and resulted in an active discussion on the etiology and treatment of these disorders. Current historiography is reliant on published physician accounts, and this represents t...

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

Acute military psychiatric casualties from the war in Iraq.

BACKGROUND The view that most military personnel evacuated from war zones are suffering from combat stress reactions, or are otherwise traumatised by the horrors of war, has an impact on all aspects of military psychiatry. AIMS To delineate the reasons for psychiatric aeromedical evacuation from Iraq from the start of build-up of UK forces in January 2003 until the end of October that year, 6...