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Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890–1930

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Description for Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890–1930 Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry. Num Pages: 344 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJF; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.

Paul Lerner traces the intertwined histories of trauma and male hysteria in German society and psychiatry and shows how these concepts were swept up into debates about Germany's national health, economic productivity, and military strength in the years surrounding World War I. From a growing concern with industrial accidents in the 1880s through the shell shock "epidemic" of the war, male hysteria seemed to bespeak the failings of German masculinity. In response, psychiatrists struggled to turn male-hysterical bodies into fit workers and loyal political subjects.

Medical approaches to trauma valorized work and productivity as standards of male health, and psychiatric ... Read more

Hysterical Men shows how wartime psychiatry furthered the process of medical rationalization. Lerner views this not as a precursor to the brutalities of Nazi-era psychiatry, but rather as characteristic of a more general medicalized modernity. The author asserts, however, that psychiatry's continual skepticism toward trauma resonated powerfully with the radical right's celebration of war and violence and its supposedly salutary effects on men and nations.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801475368
SKU
V9780801475368
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About Paul Lerner
Paul Lerner is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California where he directs the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies. He is the author of Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890–1930, also from Cornell, and coeditor of The Consuming Temple and Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, ... Read more

Reviews for Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890–1930
Hysterical Men traces the development of ideas about hysteria in Germany (and more broadly in Europe) throughout a period that saw a vast change in the understanding of mental illnesses and their treatments. Lerner focuses in particular on the thorny problem of male hysteria, rather than on the far more studied complaint in the other gender. In doing so, Lerner ... Read more

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