HIST 3640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Neurosis, Eugenics, Hypnosis
13 Mar 2017
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Lecture 15 british eugenics: very specific to time and place, memory loss, anxiety, stuttering paralysis. Battle neurosis and shell shock similar: overlap between symptoms, what sorts of treatments were used to treat american soldiers suffering from battle neuroses following. Talk therapy, occupational therapy, physical activity, and hypnosis. First three were more modern, hypnosis use still surprising. In wwi, more authoritative and coercive, more barbaric. Portray trauma of war and effect it has on soldier. To reduce stigma for battle neurosis, evoke compassion. Other (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)ts o(cid:374) the horizo(cid:374), do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to s(cid:272)are potential soldiers away. Sense of utopia, invincibility post-war, and the ability to be cured by psychiatry was trumped by state of soldiers and sense of vulnerability. Social effects of industrialization: new classes: the bourgeoisie, very comfortable lives, demands for luxury products of industry, the working class. Fasted growing class in england: abominable living and working conditions.
