- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “Terbacker Out”
- 1. “Unwelcome Heroes”: The Agony of Vietnam
- 2. “Every Man Has His Breaking Point”: War and Psychiatry
- 3. “Dangled over Hell”: The Trauma of the Civil War
- 4. “A Gizzard Full of Sand”: Reactions to Violence
- 5. “For God’s Sake Please Help Me”: Post-Traumatic Stress
- 6. “Dying of Nostalgia”: Official Diagnoses
- 7. “This Must End Sometime”: The Fate of the Civil War Veteran
- 8. “Tramping by Night and Day”: Indiana Veterans
- 9. “I Am Glad I Served My Country”: Vietnam Reconsidered
- Conclusion: “A Spectacle Grand and Awful to Contemplate”
- Appendix A. The Indiana Sample
- Appendix B. Casualty Statistics: The Company Sample and Regimental Data
- Appendix C. Nineteenth-Century Indiana Insane Asylums and Involuntary Commitment Procedures
- Appendix D. Confederate Veterans
- Notes
- Index
Shook over Hell
Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War
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$47.00 • £40.95 • €42.95
ISBN 9780674806528
Publication Date: 03/15/1999
Awards & Accolades
- Co-Winner, 1998 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association
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