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One Hundred Years Ago: Shell Shock
10 February 2015
On February 13th, 1915, the term 'shell shock' was used for the first time in the medical literature, in a paper in The Lancet . The paper is now seen as seminal in the literature on war neuroses. The author was Charles Samuel Myers, Director of the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory. Myers had volunteered for war work the...