"Most of the poor sods were mainly convicted on the evidence of doctors. They would not accept that men could reach a point of utter exhaustion...they insisted that men were cowards and deserters."
- Arthur Savage, WWI Veteran
- Arthur Savage, WWI Veteran
In the early twentieth century, while the Great War raged in Europe, thousands of British soldiers were unjustly committed to insane asylums or executed for suspected desertion or treason, after exhibiting disturbing symptoms of an unknown ailment. After observing stricken British soldiers, British psychiatrist William Halse Rivers Rivers concluded that the symptoms were of psychological nature, therefore defining the condition "shell shock" for the first time. His conclusion led him to offer an innovative way to treat shell shock, implementing psychotherapy. Rivers' innovative methods of treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) using Psychotherapy, ultimately put an end to unreasonable executions. His new ideas led military forces around the world to become more aware of PTSD and treat their soldiers for mental disorders.
Created by Nikita Salovich and Liam Plambeck,
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