Shell Shock to PTSD: Military psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the history and development of military psychiatry, with a particular, although not exclusive, focus on what has come to be called post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It initially focuses on military psychiatry before, during and after the first world war-the time when military psychiatry ‘is generally regarded to have begun’. Other chapters look at topics such as treatment and outcomes during the second world war, the Korean, Vietnam and Falkland wars, and the complex issue of compensation and war pensions for those disabled by the psychological consequences of war.