https://shellshockpopularculturearchive.com/omeka/files/original/a32f8e2904bd591847fc5861d9426d11.png 645c4f57bc2c8c3ea19e785f0afe6a1b 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. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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 The Repression of War Experience Description An account of the resource In this speech, given in front of the Royal Society of Medicine, Rivers explains the process of being shell-shocked as repression, a means of obscuring mental content from memory and rendering memory inaccessible. However, when trauma was incompletely obscured or when repression takes place in circumstances which continue the process of traumatization, troubling symptoms indicated that the trauma remained. He recounts several case studies in which men suffered from incomplete repression of war memories: in one case, a young officer was haunted by nightmares of his friend, who he had seen on the field of battle, blown into pieces. In another, a man was seized with paralyzing dread and dissociation when he tried to think of France. Rivers cautions doctors to assess such cases in an individual manner, to avoid the clearing of soldiers as fit for service when they might still be experiencing traumatic responses. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource W. H. R. Rivers Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rivers WHR. The Repression of War Experience. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 1918;11(Sect_Psych):1-20. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/003591571801101501">doi:10.1177/003591571801101501</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 4, 1917 Subject The topic of the resource A speech, later published, based on W.H.R. Rivers' experiences treating men like Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart Hospital. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Craiglockhart Hospital psychology shellshock whr rivers