Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930

By: Mark Micale

Book Overview

Trauma--the psychological consequences of wars, accidents and abuse--has become the subject of heated debate among doctors, psychologists, and lay critics (and activists) in recent years. The essays in this book trace the origins of these debates in medicine and culture in modern Europe and America. They cover medical and cultural aspects of experiences understood to be traumatic from rail and factory accidents in the later nineteenth century through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521142083
• ISBN13: 9780521142083
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"