Shell shock to PTSD : military psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War / Edgar Jones, Simon Wessely.

Hove ; New York : Psychology Press, 2005.

xvii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Pre-1914 British military psychiatry -- Shell shock and the war neuroses -- Military psychiatry in the interwar period -- Treatment and outcomes during World War Two -- Screening and selection -- Post-1945 : Korea, Vietnam, and the Falklands -- War pensions and veterans' pressure groups -- PTSD : incidence and treatment in the military -- War syndromes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-269) and index.