HIST 3640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psychotherapy, Major Trauma, Palpitations
29 Mar 2017
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Wwi and wwii created new patient groups had a huge effect on how psychiatry was practiced. Shell shock challenged cultural norms of masculine behaviour. These weren"t asylum patients, but people who were confronting the problems of everyday life. The assassination of franz ferdinand sparked the world entering a new phase o. A host of new forms of madness emerged at this time: neurasthenia being the most common. With global war, the industrial might of the western world were brought forth in new ways o o. This, in addition to the influenza pandemic, an entire generation was nearly destroyed: mentally and physically. Experienced his first active service in 1917 o. Met siegfried sassoon in edinburgh where he was receiving treatment o. Owen went back to war and died a week before the armistice at the age of 25. One of his many poems was called mental cases": written while at the craig lockhart hospital o.
