Mark Osborne Humphries uses patient records and official army files from Canadian, British and Australian archives to examine war trauma as it was experienced, treated and managed in the frontlines of the British and Canadian forces during the First World War.

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
1 Framing Shell Shock: Nervous Illness before the Great War
2 Purely Shattered Nerves: British and Canadian Approaches to Treatment, 1914-1915
3 Baptism of Fire: The Ypres Salient, 1915
4 The CEF’s Shell Shock Crisis, Spring 1916
5 Treatment of Evacuated Cases, 1915-1916
6 The BEF’s Shell Shock Crisis on the Somme, June-November 1916
7 Managing Shell Shock at the Front, October 1916-June 1917
8 Illusions of Success: The NYDN Centres, June-December 1917
9 Failure and Retrenchment, 1917-1918

Conclusion

Appendix A: Special Shell Shock Hospitals and NYDN Centres in Army Areas
Appendix B: A Note on First World War Medical Sources

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Mark Osborne Humphries is the Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience, Director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS), and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University.