Shell shock, Gordon Holmes and the Great War

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 86-89

  Macleod, A D ^a  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMIDE;

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; CONCUSSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMOTION; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SHELL SHOCK; SHOCK; WAR;

EID: 1242338059     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.97.2.86     Document Type: Review

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