Inside Shell Shock — When Men Came Back Hollow From The War
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The medical officer wrote a word in Latin, drew a line through it, wrote another, drew a line through that one too. By morning, the column was empty — and the man on the stretcher was already gone.
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SHELL SHOCK — THE WORD THE ARMY TRIED TO ERASE
A century-long story of a diagnosis that arrived too late, was abolished too soon, and returned only when most of the men it described were already gone.
◈ The young psychologist who placed two hesitant words in a medical journal in February of 1915 — and could not have known what he was setting loose.
◈ The military tribunals that tried men for cowardice in rooms where the word "shell shock" was not permitted to enter.
◈ The hospitals that kept patients from 1918 in long-stay wards until they died, decades later, of unrelated causes.
By 1922 the British government had formally abolished the term. By 2006, in a letter to the granddaughter of an executed soldier, the word returned — printed on official paper, ninety-one years after it had first been written in quotation marks.
A history of the First World War told through the life of a single phrase — what it named, what it could not name, and what is still waiting for a name.
*History told with space to breathe.*
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CHAPTERS
00:00:00 — Before the Name
00:04:58 — The Second Case, the Third, the Tenth
00:22:14 — The Word Spreads
00:31:15 — The Tribunals
00:43:40 — Craiglockhart
00:56:53 — The Word in Germany
01:08:38 — The Return
01:21:38 — The Pensions
01:35:20 — The Late Rediscovery
01:48:49 — The Forgotten of the First War
02:02:34 — What Remained Without a Name
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