- 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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