https://shellshockpopularculturearchive.com/omeka/files/original/68d2fcc2c3fde06fa1180432e8762984.png bd9af63dc0f171066b3b07615bab3d5e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clinical Records of Shell-shock Subject The topic of the resource Mental health Description An account of the resource The controversial term shell-shock was initially coined by Charles Myers in 1915, cribbed from the lexicon of soldiers, but by 1922, the term which the War Office Committee references most often is war neurasthenia, or simply neurasthenia. In 1980, the American Psychological Association would add Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Like PTSD, shell-shock describes a traumatic event, but unlike shell-shock, PTSD references traumatic contexts beyond combat and war: the two terms are not equivalent, nor are their historical contexts contiguous. This collection organizes materials on the legal and medical context of the diagnosis. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A contribution to the study of shell shock : being an account of three cases of loss of memory, vision, smell, and taste, admitted into the Duchess of Westminster's War Hospital, Le Touquet Subject The topic of the resource The controversial term shell-shock was initially coined by Charles S. Myers in this article from 1915, a term which he cribbed from the lexicon of soldiers. Description An account of the resource Shell-shock did not exist as a documented category of disability until February 1915, when psychologist Charles Myers published a paper in The Lancet entitled “A Contribution To The Study of Shell Shock: Being An Account of Three Cases of Loss of Memory, Vision, Smell, and Taste.” During his work as a military doctor in France and as a specialist commissioned by the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), Myers observed and recorded the symptoms of patients who had diminished sensory functions and memories (Myers 317-318). Myers tentatively associated these symptoms with the shock of falling shells, but was cautious to avoid assigning any definitive answer for these symptoms, though he surmised, “The close relation of these cases to those of ‘hysteria’ appears fairly certain” (320). Myers adopted the term ‘shell-shock” from the parlance of soldiers: his study brought the term into institutional use. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles S. Myers Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/qr6e95zp">Wellcome Collection</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Lancet Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1915 charles s myers medical record shellshock