Chapter 1. Transatlantic Shell Shock: An Introduction Austin Riede, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief Chapter 2. “Strange Hells”: Shell Shock, Trauma and Transatlantic Poetry of the First World War Argha ...

Rather, their condition was one of “neurasthenia,” or ... small cache of medical case notes pertaining to shell shock from the First World War. By a savage twist of fate, an estimated 60 ...

On 17 August 1917, the meeting of two traumatised soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital near Edinburgh would come to define our image of “shell shock”. However, poets Siegfried Sassoon and ...

A magnet fishing YouTuber was shocked to discover a wartime explosive in a town centre. A police cordon was put up after Raymond Berry pulled out the 10-inch First World War artillery shell from ...

In 1917 one of them, the poet Siegfried Sassoon ... mental health problems suffered by soldiers in the First World War, shell shock and the low morale caused by the huge British death toll.

The image of the shell-shocked soldier is one of the most powerful and iconic legacies of the First World War in popular memory, an enduring symbol of the devastating effects of trench warfare and ...

The occupational therapy profession got its start in 1917, when the United States War Department employed reconstruction aids ...