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Shook Over Hell: Post-traumatic Stress, Vietnam and the Civil War Book

Eric T. Dean Jr., a lawyer whose interest in the Civil War prompted him to return to school to obtain a Ph.D. in history, makes a unique contribution to Civil War studies with his research on the psychological effects of the war on its veterans. Digging through the pension records of Civil War vets, Dean documents the great number who, suffering from severe psychological problems triggered by intense combat experience, were dutifully provided with disability pensions by the U.S. government. Dean's central thesis--that these veterans provide a mirror for the experiences of their counterparts in Vietnam a century later--is supported with lucid reasoning. Of particular interest are the many stories of intense Civil War combat and its psychological aftereffects, including many cases of Civil War veterans committed to asylums well into the 1890s--case studies seldom found in standard histories which offer painful testimony to the war's enormous impact on the nation. --Robert McNamara Read More

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  • Product Description

    Vietnam still haunts the American conscience. Not only did nearly 58,000 Americans die there, but-by some estimates-1.5 million veterans returned with war-induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This psychological syndrome of social pathology is now placed in historical context by Eric Dean in this remarkable new book on Civil War veterans. The psychological and readjustment problems experienced by Civil War soldiers echo in later wars as a common medical occurrence.

  • 0674806522
  • 9780674806528
  • E T Dean
  • 31 March 1999
  • Harvard University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
  • New edition
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