Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War

1. Introduction
Jason Crouthamel, Peter Leese

Part I. Battles over Representations and Perceptions of Traumatized Men

2. Losing Face: Trauma and Maxillofacial Injury in the First World War
Fiona Reid

3. Screening Silent Resistance: Male Hysteria in First World War Medical Cinematography
Julia Barbara Köhne

4. “Always Had a Pronouncedly Psychopathic Predisposition”: The Significance of Class and Rank in First World War German Psychiatric Discourse
Gundula Gahlen

Part II. Traumatized Civilians in the Wake of the Great War

5. Violence, Trauma and Memory in Ireland: The Psychological Impact of War and Revolution on a Liminal Society, 1916–1923
Justin Dolan Stover

6. Gender, Memory and the Great War: The Politics of War Victimhood in Interwar Germany
Silke Fehlemann, Nils Löffelbein

7. Subjectivities in the Aftermath: Children of Disabled Soldiers in Britain After the Great War
Michael Roper

8. “Entrenched from Life”: The Impossible Reintegration of Traumatized French Veterans of the Great War
Marie Derrien

Part III. Traumatized Medical Cultures

9. Making Sense of War Neurosis in Yugoslavia
Heike Karge

10. “Everything Ruined, Which Seemed Most Stable in the World…”: The German Medical Profession, the First World War and the Road to the “Third Reich”
Livia Prüll

11. Violence and Starvation in First World War Psychiatry: Origins of the National Socialist ‘Euthanasia’ Program
Philipp Rauh

Part IV. A Coda on Trauma

12. Toward A Global History of Trauma
Mark S. Micale

Keywords: History, History of Military, History of Medicine, Gender Studies