Upon the end of the Great War in 1918, soldiers and nurses returned to their homes on either side of the Atlantic. Although no longer actively engaged in fighting, they still suffered the traumatic ...

Most of the 9.7 million soldiers who perished in WWI were killed by the conflict's unprecedented firepower. Many survivors experienced acute trauma. Hulton Archive / Getty Images In September 1914, at ...

Shell Shock festival, which raises funds for PTSD victims, is standing behind Kyle Rittenhouse after facing criticism for the Kenosha shooter's planned appearance. Nearly three years after his ...

SOME of the saddest results of the war are the cases of ‘shell-shock,’ of which a distressing instance was given in the Atlantic Monthly for December, 1921. But the term ‘shell-shock’ was used to ...

Thus, although shell shock was to be the signature injury of the opening war of the modern age, and although its vexed diagnostic status has ramifications for casualties of Iraq and Afghanistan today, ...