Chapter Summary<\/summary>\nThis chapter explores the history of shell shock during the First World War as a moment of profound crisis in psychology, culture, and medicine. Drawing on the concept of psychosomatic protest, it examines how trauma manifested differently in officers and ordinary soldiers, shaped by class, power, and military expectations. Officers were often haunted by moral injury, while lower-ranked men exhibited physical symptoms such as paralysis or mutism, bodily expressions of suffering that could not be spoken about, let alone discussed. The chapter contrasts the empathetic therapeutic methods of W. H. R. Rivers with the punitive disciplinary approach of Lewis Yealland, revealing how social hierarchies were reproduced through psychological treatment. It also briefly explores the cultural afterlife of shell shock through interwar literature and poetry and connects these early twentieth-century debates to later understandings of psychological trauma, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Ultimately, shell shock is presented not simply as a medical condition but as a politically and symbolically charged episode in the history of psychology, one that continues to shape how we think about trauma, masculinity, and the ethics of care.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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