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Battle Exhaustion

Name: Battle Exhaustion
Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press
SKU: 9780773507746
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Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939-1945

Autor: Terry Copp, Bill McAndrew

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: McGill-Queen's University Press

Dostępność: Dodruk

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577.86 zł

At the outset of the Second World War Canadians wanted to avoid the horrors encountered on the weste...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Terry Copp, Bill McAndrew

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

1990

strony

280

EAN

9780773507746

Enbook ID

04917049

Wydawca

McGill-Queen's University Press

Waga

673

Wymiary

250

Pełny opis

At the outset of the Second World War Canadians wanted to avoid the horrors encountered on the western front in 1914-18, one of the most significant of which was shell shock. Most medical personnel preferred not to assign to combat those who showed neurotic symptoms during training, but this approach was challenged by the Canadian Psychological Association and by the new Personnel Selection Directorate established in 1941. Personnel Selection claimed to be able to distinguish, before training, between those suited and those unsuited to combat duty. However, when Canadian troops went into battle in Italy, the preparatory work seemed to have had little impact. Canadian losses due to battle exhaustion were no less than those of other allied forces. Front-line treatment allowed about half of these to return to their units, but eventually a very large number of soldiers were assigned to non-combat roles because it was judged they could no longer function effectively in battle. Similar problems were encountered in Normandy, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. Copp and McAndrew are critical of military commanders who thought strict discipline coupled with high morale from good training and success in battle would keep battle exhaustion in check, and of officers in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps who tried to impose theoretical solutions that did not fit the circumstances. The authors show how some doctors, using energy and common sense, contributed to the evolution of contemporary psychiatric ideas about the realities of large-scale psychological casualties.