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Diagnosing Dissent

Diagnosing Dissent


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While physicians during WWI, and scholars since, have addressed the idea of disorders like shell shock as inchoate flights into sickness by men unwilling to cope with war's privations, little attention has been given to the agency many soldiers actually possessed to express dissent in a system that medicalized it. In Germany, these men were called Kriegszitterer, or war tremblers, for their telltale symptom of uncontrollable shaking. Based on archival research that constitutes the largest study of psychiatric patient files from 1914 to 1918, Diagnosing Dissent examines the important space that wartime psychiatry provided soldiers expressing objection to the war.

Rebecca Ayako Bennette argues that the treatment of these soldiers was far less dismissive of real ailments and more conducive to individual expression of protest than we have previously thought. Not only an important issue in itself, such a reevaluation of German psychiatry during this period also fundamentally changes how we interpret central questions like the strength of the German Rechtsstaat and the continuities or discontinuities between the events of WWI and the atrocities committed--often in the name of medicine and sometimes by the same physicians--during WWII.

--Paul Lerner, author of Hysterical Men


About the Author:

Rebecca Ayako Bennette is Professor of History at Middlebury College, and is the author of Fighting for the Soul of Germany.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781501751202
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 562 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1501751204
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2020
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany During World War One
  • Width: 152 mm


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