Sándor Ferenczi, a Hungarian psychoanalyst, pioneer of the psychoanalytic school and a close associate of Sigmund Freud will say: “It is thanks to war that psychoanalysis was born”.
In this episode of History Pills, we will discover how how WW1 changed Mental Health FOREVER! We will see how modern Psychoanalysis evolved in the early decades of 1900. How the Great War impacted thousands of men, and what we discovered about our psyche. In particular, we will analyze how high stress situations in World War I impacted the lives of thousand of men. Modern PTSD, called at the time "Shell Shock", was indeed first observed during WW1 when hundreds of thousands of men suddenly suffered from panic attacks, inability to reason, sleep, walk or even talk. At first these cases were branded as lack of moral fibre, or as internal lesions to the brain due to explosions. However, by noticing that officers experienced this trauma more than soldiers exposed to shell attacks, studies begun about the possibility of emotional damages. The way this soldiers were treated highly varied based on the nation (e.g. Germany, Italy, France or Britain) and from the local commander. However, almost everywhere dozens of men were sentenced to death for cowardice.
With the end of the war, these disorders kept persisting with no cure being found. In the United Kingdom alone, 10 years after the end of the war, 60 thousands men were yet in hospital undergoing treatment for “Shell Shock”.

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