Ebook {Epub PDF} Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War by Peter Barham

Touching, ribald and profoundly moving, this book recounts the histories of the ordinary British servicemen who suffered as psychiatric casualties of World War I. Focusing on their experiences - rather than those of their officers - it provides a new and personal perspective on the impact of the Great War/5(11).  · FORGOTTEN LUNATICS OF THE GREAT WAR * By Peter Barham * New Haven: Yale University Press. * Price {pound} * ISBN * HYSTERICAL MEN, WAR, PSYCHIATRY, AND THE POLITICS OF Author: Edgar Jones. Forgotten lunatics of the Great War. Barham, Peter. This is a poignant, sometimes ribald, history of the rank-and-file servicemen who were psychiatric casualties of World War One. Book. English. Published New Haven, [Conn.; London: Yale University Press,

scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and evaluate scientific articles through Smart Citations-citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by researchers from dozens of. Barham situates his text in the changing context of the social situation and development at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. Only in did the nomenclature change from such terms as 'lunatics' or 'idiots', which indicated permanent states of disorder and alienation. Peter Barham's book is an excellent example of 'underdog' history. Barham has trawled the archives in search of the lives and experiences of ordinary soldiers who suffered mental crises during the Great War. His aim is to resurrect these forgotten people and to show that, though their voices have since.

Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War. Peter Barham. Yale University Press, Jan 1, - Political Science - pages. 1 Review. Although the shell-shocked British soldier of World War I has been a. Barham has trawled the archives in search of the lives and experiences of ordinary soldiers who suffered mental crises during the Great War. His aim is to resurrect these forgotten people and to show that, though their voices have since been silenced, during the Great War they conjoined with popular protest and progressive elements in psychiatry to create a brief flowering of sympathetic care and treatment associated with budding ideas of an equality of citizens’ rights. Barham describes how the system treated them, right up to the end of their lives, and tells the story of many individual men and their families. They were forgotten because officialdom wanted to forget them, and it is right that their stories are told.