A History of the Armed Forces use of psychiatry to prevent and treat psychologial casualties: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-second-world-war-shellshock-to-psychiatry

Psychiatric casualties are acknowledged today as inevitable and important consequences of modern warfare. This lecture will discuss the extent to which advances were made during the Second World War in our understanding of war-related psychological stress.

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-second-world-war-shellshock-to-psychiatry

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