The American Civil War

Leese’s article, “Casualties: On the Western Front,” was about how the military did not recognize non organic injuries as real injuries until 1915. The soldiers on the frontline, understood the psychological injury, sometimes called “shell shock,” better than anyone. During the war, mental health and illness were determined by the military’s nee for man power so the army rejected the ideal and simply called it hysteria. That was until the French army realized that there was more to it than hysteria and the search for answers began. The article also contains stories about the experiences of the soldier on the frontline. The author’s main points were convincing because of the many details the article contained as well as the numerous stories.

The American Civil War was a horrible time of pain and suffering, especially to those who fought in the war. The Civil War caused hundreds and thousands of deaths, yet many of these were not the result of battle wounds. About two thirds of deaths from the Civil War were attributed to disease. Of course, even though the majority of soldiers that did not die during the war left without limbs, and left with trauma and disabilities, the results could have been much worse without the medical advancements we gained during the war. Technical advances in hygiene, surgery, and medical efficiency all became substantial outcomes that furthered medical practices and helped shape medicine in the modern age.

The tactics used in World War I were radically different than that of previous wars. The majority of the war was fought in the trenches, and the war itself seemed to have no end. Due to this, the psychological impact of the war was unlike anything that had been seen before. During the early days of the war, the soldiers, on both sides, seemed to lack the dedication that would have been necessary to exterminate their enemy. However, as the war progressed, the desire to avenge their fallen comrades overcame their ethics and they began to kill their enemy indiscriminately. Surviving soldiers experienced a phenomenon that was, at that time, referred to as shell shock. Today we refer to this phenomenon as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. At this time, this psychological condition was misunderstood and the doctors lacked the training necessary to effectively treat this condition.

In the Civil War most of the people didn’t always get treated right. This war was from 1861-1865. In the war when people came home some people didn’t have health insurance when injured. Others had post traumatic stress disorder and could have led to suicide. Another thing is during the war some of the soldiers were left to starve and horseless and desperate. (“Cross-Dressers of the CIVIL WAR.”) Around 85% of civil war soldiers suffered from illnesses (“Civil war had a major impact on lifetime health”). There were less killings from bullets then diseases. Twice as many people were killed from the diseases then bullet deaths. One of the illnesses that people died from was called nostalgia.(“The civil war’s Hidden Legacy.) The war wasn’t easy

Our modern conception of casualties includes those who have been psychologically damaged by warfare. This distinction did not exist during the Civil War. Soldiers suffering from what we would now recognize as post-traumatic stress disorder were uncatalogued and uncared for.

In the First World War soldiers on the western front went through an enormous range of experiences from extreme boredom to appalling stress. The majority of soldiers fighting saw horrific things on a daily basis which none of us would like to, this triggered mental illness in the men. Also several other factors caused this like the awful conditions of the trenches and the way people were treated, it would have been very upsetting and disturbing.

After World War One, many soldiers returned from the front-lines with psychological and physical problems: shellshock, missing limbs, and brain damage. For these reasons, people consider the 20 years after World War one, 1919-1939, to be the Age of Anxiety. Because of their psychological problems and alarming behavioral actions, it seemed as if citizens all over the world were anxious; they had never seen a more psychologically messed up group of people before. Psychological problems caused by World War one led to a total pervasive sense of anxiety expressed it intellectual response, artistic movements, and alarming scientific discoveries.

The Vietnam War was the founder of mental care for war veterans. The Vietnam War inspired a alteration in prospects of the nature of critical war psychoneurosis and long-term psychiatric disabilities. Psychiatrists are studying the diseases and behaviors of the brain and how war participants have been affected. Many psychiatrists thought that the diseases caused by the war were short term and could recover quickly buy, as more research debuted about PTSD they changed their understanding. PTSD sufferers after the war had none or little help from the United States with 15 percent of war veterans having some form of the disease.

Over the years America has gained the reputation of being the “land of the free and the home of the brave.” But how did america become acquainted with these titles? America gained its reputation from undergoing several wars and social discrepancies. It is very ironic though that America can be seen as the land of the free when the early citizens of the country thrived off the enslavement of an entire race of people. One major war that questioned the idea of freedom and enslavement, was the civil war. This war took place during the 19th century and was a fight over different moral beliefs between the northern states and the southern states. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, seven southern states decided to secede from the union

The divide of the social divide that developed on the opposite ends of the Mason-Dixon Line came from over centuries of development. The culture that ended in the two waring ends of the United States began as a nearly identical one. Over the growth of a new nation the two regions divided along strict moral, political, and economic lines that came to a head in what is known as the American Civil War. What really led this nation to divide so drastically from its coming together to fight off an imperial rule and form democratic state though? While many place the blame on the ‘evil’ South and their acceptance of owning human people but this entirely discounts the racism and xenophobia of the North at the time. Like most things, the victor gets

The American Civil War, which occurred between 1861 and 1865, pitted the Union North against the Confederate South. Between 1835 and 1877, there was another Civil War occurring within the United States. The other Civil War involved pitting the rich against the poor. One of the most important assertions Zinn makes involves these struggles:

Warfare causes many people to suffer from psychological problems. Many times, these problems come in the form of mental illness. According to the DSM-VI, which is the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a mental disorder is "a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that's associated with current distress (a painful symptom) or disability (impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) or with a significantly greater risk of suffering, death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom. This syndrome or pattern mustn't be merely an expected, culturally sanctioned response such as grief over the death of a

The Civil War between the North and the South in America was not even a half year old when well-known Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote his article “Bread and the Newspaper” in prestigious Boston The Atlantic Monthly magazine, which he helped to found. He wrote in the magazine that war to preserve the union will bring the various citizens of the country together and needs to be fought on three fronts, one is the law, one is in the mind of the people and one requires the spilling of blood, all in the tradition of the Revolutionary War.

In the realm of foreign relations, it is very difficult to see the legitimacy of war. People resolve to fight for their country – their county’s sovereignty – but at what cost? After the outbreak of WWI and WWII, war will begin to be condemned by the nations of the world. Simply enough, the impact war makes on a society is too great for any benefits gained as a result of the conflict. The post-world war age became one where a generation of individuals – those who were unfortunate enough to be in the conflict, were completely decimated – if not physically, then perhaps mentally. However, the medical field in the early to middle portion of the 20th century was not as developed as in the modern age and symptoms of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) went unrecognized. In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway addresses the post-WWI era as he writes a story about a group of comrades who are trying to find their place in the world that has a completely different understanding of the effects of war as people today.

Vietnam soldiers became mentally ill after being in war because of the stress and for being in the warlike environment for too long. A Sociologist did a study and found, “A sociological assessment of the attitudes and behavior of American combat soldiers over the course of the war in Vietnam suggests that primary-group interpretations of combat behavior must be