SHELL SHOCK AND OTHER NEUROPSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS Printed in five hundred and eighty-nine Case Histories BY E. E. SOUTHARD, M.D., Sc.D. Being Monograph Number Three of the Psychopathic Department of the Boston State Hospital, Massachusetts
SHELL-SHOCK AND OTHER NEUROPSYCHIATRY PROBLEMS
Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-Nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918
Director (1917-1918), U. S. Army Neuropsychiatric Training School (Boston Unit); Late Major, Chemical Warfare Service, U. S. Army; Bullard Professor of Neuropathology, Harvard Medical School; Director, Massachusetts State Psychiatric Institute (of the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases); Late President, American Medico-Psychological Association
With a Bibliography by Norman Fenton, S.B., A.M.
Sergeant Medical Corps, U. S. Army (Assistant in Psychology to the Medical Director, Base Hospital 117 A. E. F.); late interne in Psychology, Psychopathic Department, Boston State Hospital; Assistant in Reconstruction, National Committee for Mental Hygiene
And an Introduction by Charles K. Mills, M.D., L.L.D.
Emeritus Professor of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
By Vote of the Trustees of the Boston State Hospital Monograph Number Three of the Psychopathic Department
To THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR MENTAL HYGIENE AND ITS WORK IN WAR AND PEACE
This compilation was begun in the preparedness atmosphere of the U. S. Army Neuropsychiatric Training School at Boston, 1917-18. This particular school had to adapt itself to the clinical material of the Psychopathic Hospital. Although war cases early began to drift into the wards (even including some overseas material), it was thought well to supplement the ordinary “acute, curable, and incipient” mental cases of the hospital wards and out-patient service with representative cases from the literature.
As time wore on, this “preparedness” ideal gave place to the ideal of a collection of cases to serve as a source-book for reconstructionists dealing with neuroses and psychoses. Shortage of medical staff and delays incidental to the influenza epidemic held the book back still further, and, as meantime Brown and Williams had served the immediate need with their _Neuropsychiatry and the War_, it was determined to make the compilation the beginning of a case-history book on the neuropsychiatry of the war, following in part the traditions of various case-books in law and medicine.