Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. List of Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Framing Shell Shock: Nervous Illness before the Great War 14
8. 2. Purely Shattered Nerves: British and Canadian Approaches to Treatment, 1914–1915 35
9. 3. Baptism of Fire: The Ypres Salient, 1915 48
10. 4. The CEF’s Shell Shock Crisis, Spring 1916 87
11. 5. Treatment of Evacuated Cases, 1915–1916 120
12. 6. The BEF’s Shell Shock Crisis on the Somme, June–November 1916 157
13. 7. Managing Shell Shock at the Front, October 1916-June 1917 198
14. 8. Illusions of Success: The NYDN Centres, June–December 1917 236
15. 9. Failure and Retrenchment, 1917–1918 268
16. Conclusion 311
17. Appendix A: Special Shell Shock Hospitals and NYDN Centres in Army Areas 329
18. Appendix B: A Note on First World War Medical Sources 333
19. Notes 339
20. Bibliography 415
21. Index 443