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Kerrigan, Janis M.

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Ivor Bertie Gurney: Through the cracks of shell shock.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ivor Bertie Gurney: Through the cracks of shell shock./
Author:	Kerrigan, Janis M.
Description:	342 p.
Notes:	Adviser: John Warner.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-06A.
Subject:	Biography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3222102
ISBN:	9780542751226

Ivor Bertie Gurney: Through the cracks of shell shock.
Kerrigan, Janis M.

Ivor Bertie Gurney: Through the cracks of shell shock. - 342 p.

Adviser: John Warner.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drew University, 2006.

A limited biography of English composer and Great War Poet Ivor Bertie Gurney, focusing on his life of unspeakable horror in the trenches of World War I, his discharge, and his battle with shell shock, which lead to his commitment to an asylum for the last 15 years of his life. As a common soldier, Gurney was victimized by opposing medical treatments for shell shock. The official medical history of the war shows there were two different forms of treatment for shell shock administered during the war. Officers, such as fellow war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, received the more humane psychoanalysis treatment, which helped them confront their terrifying war memories---making it easier for them to return to a normal life upon discharge. By comparison, the common soldier received the harsher treatment known as disciplinary therapy. This method labeled members of the ranks, such as Gurney, as malingerers and tortured them with electrical shocks, which forced them back to the front line and worsened their condition. This placed a full recovery out of their reach and doomed them, the common soldiers, to the torment of their repressed memories and led them to suicide or lifelong asylum commitment.

ISBN: 9780542751226Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

Ivor Bertie Gurney: Through the cracks of shell shock.
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520 $a A limited biography of English composer and Great War Poet Ivor Bertie Gurney, focusing on his life of unspeakable horror in the trenches of World War I, his discharge, and his battle with shell shock, which lead to his commitment to an asylum for the last 15 years of his life. As a common soldier, Gurney was victimized by opposing medical treatments for shell shock. The official medical history of the war shows there were two different forms of treatment for shell shock administered during the war. Officers, such as fellow war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, received the more humane psychoanalysis treatment, which helped them confront their terrifying war memories---making it easier for them to return to a normal life upon discharge. By comparison, the common soldier received the harsher treatment known as disciplinary therapy. This method labeled members of the ranks, such as Gurney, as malingerers and tortured them with electrical shocks, which forced them back to the front line and worsened their condition. This placed a full recovery out of their reach and doomed them, the common soldiers, to the torment of their repressed memories and led them to suicide or lifelong asylum commitment.
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