Acknowledgments	5
	Contents	7
	List of Figures	10
	Notes on Contributors	12
	Chapter 1: Introduction	16
	Historiographical Background and Methodologies	20
	Organization and Themes	23
	Notes	30
	Part I: Battles over Representations and Perceptions of Traumatized Men	37
	Chapter 2: Losing Face: Trauma and Maxillofacial Injury in the First World War	38
	Background: Facial Injuries and Facial Images	42
	New Faces for Old: Life with a Wounded Face	45
	Putting a Face On: The Mask and Its Shortcomings	51
	After One Hundred Years: Re-Discovering the Legacy	54
	Notes	56
	Chapter 3: Screening Silent Resistance: Male Hysteria in First World War Medical Cinematography	61
	Silent Resistance?	61
	Deviation by the Deviant	69
	Unpleasant Feelings: Pain and Nudity	69
	Undermining the Choreography of Gaits	74
	Undermining the Choreography of Gazes	78
	The Battle of Seale Hayne as a Means to the Dream of Re-Militarization	80
	Conclusion: Agency?	85
	Notes	86
	Chapter 4: “Always Had a Pronouncedly Psychopathic Predisposition”: The Significance of Class and Rank in  First World War German Psychiatric Discourse	92
	Mental Damage: Officers and Other Ranks	95
	Diagnoses and Causes of Mental Affliction	97
	The Treatment of Mentally Damaged Officers	104
	Conclusion	109
	Notes	111
	Part II: Traumatized Civilians in the Wake of the Great War	125
	Chapter 5: Violence, Trauma and Memory in Ireland: The Psychological Impact of War and Revolution on a Liminal Society, 1916–1923	126
	Ireland and the Great War	128
	The Irish War of Independence	133
	Conclusion	139
	Notes	140
	Chapter 6: Gender, Memory and the Great War: The Politics of War Victimhood in Interwar Germany	150
	Representations of War Damaged Men in Weimar Culture	152
	The Traumatic Impact of War on Bereaved Women	155
	The National Socialist Politics of “Honor” in the Third Reich	160
	Conclusion	164
	Notes	165
	Chapter 7: Subjectivities in the Aftermath: Children of Disabled Soldiers in Britain After the Great War	174
	The Emotional Scripts of Parenting	179
	Relationships with Fathers	181
	Relationships with Mothers	186
	Generational Reversals	190
	Conclusion	194
	Notes	196
	Chapter 8: “Entrenched from Life”: The Impossible Reintegration of Traumatized French Veterans of the Great War	201
	From War to Normal Life: The Mental and Emotional Strain of Demobilization	204
	Psychiatrists and Post-War Mental Disorders: A Disregarded Issue	208
	Getting Out of Asylums? The Question of Reintegration After Institutionalization	212
	Conclusion	216
	Notes	217
	Part III: Traumatized Medical Cultures	223
	Chapter 9: Making Sense of War Neurosis in Yugoslavia	224
	Legislation on War Neurosis	228
	Psychiatric Discourse on War Neurosis	230
	Unmaking Sense of War Neurosis	234
	Conclusion	237
	Notes	238
	Chapter 10: “Everything Ruined, Which Seemed Most Stable in the World…”: The German Medical Profession, the First World War and the Road to the “Third Reich”	243
	The Main Goals of German Medicine During the First World War	245
	The Traumatization of German Military Medicine After 1918	247
	German Civilian Medicine and Its Militarization After 1918	251
	Conclusion	255
	Notes	256
	Chapter 11: Violence and Starvation in First World War Psychiatry: Origins of the National Socialist ‘Euthanasia’ Program	266
	Psychologically Disabled Veterans: Victims of T-4	268
	Military Psychiatry: Violence Against Patients	269
	War Neurosis and Pension Neurosis: Battles for  Compensation	271
	Wartime Starvation in Psychiatric Hospitals: Postwar Debate	273
	‘Unleashing the Destruction of Unworthy Life’	276
	The Politics of Psychiatry: Social and Genetic Health, 1933–39	278
	Initiating and Planning the ‘Euthanasia’ Program: the First World War as Blueprint	280
	Conclusion	281
	Notes	284
	Part IV: A Coda on Trauma	292
	Chapter 12: Toward A Global History of Trauma	293
	Note	309
	Suggestions for Further Reading for Chapter 12	309
	Books and Articles	309
	Films	314
	Bibliography	315
	Index	332