Early treatment of PTSD, the electrical treatments were harrowing, this follows Siegfried Sassoon and the psychologist who treated him after he publishes his declaration of protest against the continuation of the war. Features several characters from history.Not a bad one but the narrator didn't re...
The Doubleday UK meme, a book a day in July, has reached a tough decision-requiring entry: Your favorite novel of the Great War, or WWI. http://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2014/07/book-day-8-regeneration-my-favorite.html It took a LOT of thinking to settle on Pat Barker's amazing novel, Regenerat...
bookshelves: film-only, wwi, published-1991, mental-health, tbr-busting-2014, winter-20132014 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brazilliant Laura Read from November 20, 2011 to January 30, 2014 Description: Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of Wor...
A case could be made that the misery and suffering endured by those serving in combatant roles by European soldiers of WWI were the most extreme of any war in history. (I explicitly limit this generalization to soldiers from European countries because they were in the trenches for four full years w...
I found this a fascinating book!! I am really interested in anything about medicine and so found the description of early psychological treatments of WWI veterans very interesting. Also, that the whole trilogy is based on fact, on the real life meeting of the poet Sigfried Sassoon and his doctor dur...
I found this a fascinating book!! I am really interested in anything about medicine and so found the description of early psychological treatments of WWI veterans very interesting. Also, that the whole trilogy is based on fact, on the real life meeting of the poet Sigfried Sassoon and his doctor dur...
In the midst of WWI, decorated officer / poet Siegfried Sassoon publishes a statement against the war. Because he is rich, he is sent to Craiglockhart to be treated by Dr. Rivers for neurasthenia instead of being court martialed. All of this really happened. So begins Regeneration, which examines t...
The First World War as experienced by the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, recuperating in a mental hospital surrounded by their shell-shocked and crippled comrades. Masterfully written - beats Birdsong hands-down.
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