Minds the dead have ravished.

During the First World War the term 'shell-shock' was used for any neurological problem suffered by soldiers which could not otherwise be explained, until the work of psychiatrists proved it to be a specific clinical condition. This 3-part series begins with an account of changing attitudes to shell shock in the 1914-18 World War, its manifestations and how it was treated. There are first-hand accounts of conditions into which soldiers were thrown manifestations of shell shock. The history of its recognition and treatment is given, with contributions from Lt.-Col. Ian Palmer (Professor of Military Psychiatry, Royal Army Medical College) and accounts of the work of Dr. Charles Myers, Dr. Richard Rous, Dr. Lewis Yealland, Dr. Arthur Hurst, psychoanalyst Tom Pears and psychologist W. H. R. Rivers.