On 17 August 1917, the meeting of two traumatised soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital near Edinburgh would come to define our image of “shell shock”. However, poets Siegfried Sassoon and ...

It was the condition that left World War One troops blind, deaf, mute and paralysed after the trauma of the trenches. But soldiers were able to find some solace from shell shock at Whitchurch ...

Myers, who was Consulting Psychologist to the British Armies in France and the First World War. Based on a war diary, it explains the work he did in France and England for shell shock and shell ...

Sassoon was surrounded by men suffering from the condition called Shell Shock. This War of endless artillery bombardment wasn’t only killing and maiming soldiers, it was sending them mad.

Staff and patients in 1917 posing in front of Craiglockhart hospital which was set up to treat shell-shocked soldiers in WW1 The horrors of World War One were expressed by many of the soldiers who ...