Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Prologue: The Shock of the Shell

1. Doctors' Minds

2. Shell-Shock in France

3. Trench Work

4. The Somme

5. Psychiatry at the Front, 1917-18

6. Home Fires

7. Europeans

8. Arguments and Enigmas, 1917-18

9. 'Skirting the Edges of Hell'

10. Inquests

11. 'Will Peace Bring Peace?'

12. The Lessons of Shell-Shock

13. Dunkirk, the Blitz and the Blue

14. 'We Can Save those Boys from Horror'

15. Front-line Psychiatry

16. New Ways of War

17. D-Day and After

18. A Tale of Two Hospitals

19. The Helmeted Airman

20. Learning from the Germans?

21. Prisoners of War

22. A Good War?

23. Vietnam Doctors

24. From Post-Vietnam Syndrome to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

25. 'When the Patient Reports Atrocities...'

26. From the Falklands to the Gulf

27. The Culture of Trauma

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Ben Shephard writes widely on psychiatry and its history. He was a producer on Thames Television's The World at War.