Diagnosing Dissent Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One

Rebecca Ayako Bennette, "Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One"
English | ISBN: 1501751204 | 2020 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1422 KB
Although physicians during World War I, and scholars since, have addressed the idea of disorders such as shell shock as inchoate flights into sickness by men unwilling to cope with war’s privations, they have given little attention to the agency many soldiers actually possessed to express dissent in a system that medicalized it. In Germany, these men were called Kriegszitterer, or "war tremblers," for their telltale symptom of uncontrollable shaking. Based on archival research that constitutes the largest study of psychiatric patient files from 1914 to 1918,