The First World War: trauma and memory: Online Course from OpenLearn

In this free course, The First World War: trauma and memory, you will study the subject of physical and mental trauma, its treatments and its representation. You will focus not only on the trauma ...

Syllabus

- Week1Week 1: Physical and mental casualties
- Introduction
- 1.1 Injuries of the First World War
- 1.1.1 Physical injuries
- 1.1.2 Finding and interrogating historical data
- 1.1.3 Search for yourself
- 1.1.4 Casualties summary
- 1.2 Introducing shell shock
- 1.2.1 Interview with Dr Fiona Reid
- 1.2.2 Treatment of shell shock
- 1.2.3 Discussing shell shock
- 1.3 Week 1 summary
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
- Week2Week 2: Civilian war experiences
- Introduction
- 2.1 Atrocities against civilians
- 2.1.1 The experience of invasion and occupation
- 2.1.2 The war from the air
- 2.1.3 The bombing of Hartlepool
- 2.1.4 Atrocities committed by other armies
- 2.1.5 Propaganda
- 2.2 Hunger
- 2.2.1 Turnips
- 2.2.2 Hunger: a child’s perspective
- 2.2.3 The global consequences of the war: the ‘Spanish Flu’
- 2.3 Week 2 summary
- References
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
- Week3Week 3: Trauma, grief and bereavement
- Introduction
- 3.1 Mourning the dead
- 3.1.1 Grief and mourning in literature and art
- 3.1.2 Vera Brittain
- 3.1.3 Awaiting a telegram
- 3.1.4 Reactions: trauma, grief and disgust in art
- 3.1.5 Siegfried Sassoon and shell shock
- 3.1.6 Great War poets and shell shock
- 3.1.7 War poetry in the twentieth century
- 3.1.8 Shell shock in fiction: the example of Pat Barker
- 3.2 Developing medical attitudes to shell shock after the war
- 3.2.1 Shell shock since the First World War
- 3.2.2 Fiona Reid: shell shock
- 3.2.3 War neurosis and post-traumatic stress disorder
- 3.3 Summary
- Where next?
- References
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements

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