Impelled to reminiscence: Millais Culpin, military psychiatry, and the politics of therapy

Title: Impelled to reminiscence: Millais Culpin, military psychiatry, and the politics of therapy
Creator: Roberts-Pedersen, Elizabeth
Relation: Health and History Vol. 17, Issue 2, p. 1-16
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5401/healthhist.17.2.0001
Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: This article considers the career of the British surgeon turned psychologist Millais Culpin, an early pioneer of abreactive therapies for shell shocked soldiers during World War I and a persistent advocate for the psychodynamic approach to wartime psychiatric conditions. While Culpin’s wartime work is less prominent than that of the more famous shell shock doctors (such as W.H.R. Rivers and Charles Myers), his career is nevertheless important for understanding one possible therapeutic response to a psychogenic interpretation of shell shock, which Culpin saw as the problem of repressed memory.
Subject: psychiatry; war; shell shock; abreaction; Millais Culpin
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1315918
Identifier: uon:23026
Identifier: ISSN:1442-1771
Language: eng
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