The First World War: trauma and memory
1.2.2 Treatment of shell shock
Next, Fiona Reid discusses the various methods that were used to treat shell shock. These might include rest and distraction, or could entail more extreme treatments, such as electric shock therapy (faradism).
Modern forms of psychoanalysis were relatively rare at this stage, although some doctors, such as the famous W.H.R. Rivers, did encourage the ‘talking cure’.
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