Battle Exhaustion: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939-1945 9780773562592

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Battle Exhaustion: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939-1945
 9780773562592

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Introduction
1 No. I Nuts: The Development of Army Neuropsychiatry, 1939–1942
2 Square Pegs and Round Holes: The Impact of Personnel Selection
3 Into Battle: Psychiatry in the Mediterannean Theatre: North Africa, Sicily, Ortona
4 The D–Day Dodgers: Italy 1944
5 If This War Isn't Over ... Battle Exhaustion and the Manpower Problem in Italy, 1944–1945
6 Normandy: The Battle Exhaustion Crisis of July 1944
7 Proximity, Immediacy, and Expectancy: Forward Psychiatry in Northwest Europe, 1944–1945
Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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