Article Text
PDFNeurology book and film club
Book club: Regeneration, Pat Barker
Statistics from Altmetric.com
The centenary of the start of the First World War is imminent, and this month the Book Club discussed Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (figure 1), set in that War. It is based on the true story of William Rivers, an army psychiatrist treating soldiers for shell shock. The book describes many of his patients, including the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as an army doctor with a horror of blood, …
Footnotes
-
Competing interests None.
-
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
Linked Articles
- Editors' choice
Read the full text or download the PDF:
Other content recommended for you
- On the concept of trauma
- Different shell, same shock
- Shell shock patients: from cowards to victims
- Post-combat syndromes from the Boer war to the Gulf war: a cluster analysis of their nature and attribution
- The London Contribution to Neurology and Psychiatry: The second British Symposium on the History of Neurology and Psychiatry
- Repairing the damage of war
- Shell-Shock: A History of the Changing Attitude to War Neurosis
- A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914-94
- We need to talk about Epizelus: ‘PTSD’ and the ancient world
- Interests and concerns of the Army Medical Services as reflected by the publications in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps 1903–2019