Evolution away from shell-shock The next wave of the study of trauma came when the Second World War saw another influx of soldiers dealing with similar symptoms. It was Abram Kardiner, a clinician ...

Shell shock is a term originally coined in 1915 by Charles Myers to describe soldiers who were involuntarily shivering, crying, fearful, and had constant intrusions of memory. It is not a term used in ...

It used to be called “shell shock.” Doctors now call it “traumatic war neurosis.” The term “shell-shock” has been loosely used for symptoms ranging all the way from temporary nervousness and hysteria ...