Jason Crouthamel is an Associate Professor of history at Grand Valley State University, USA. He is the author of An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality and German Soldiers in the First World War (2014) and The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma, 1914-1945 (2009). He is also the co-editor, with Peter Leese, of Traumatic Memories of World War Two and After (2016).Peter Leese is Associate Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His publications include Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War (2002), Britain Since 1945: Aspects of Identity (2006). Together with Jason Crouthamel he is also the co-editor of Traumatic Memories of World War Two and After (2016).

• Introduction Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University) and Peter Leese (University of Copenhagen).- Part I: Battles over Representations and Perceptions of Traumatized Men.- 1. Losing Face: trauma and maxillofacial injury in the First World War Fiona Reid (University of South Wales).- 2. Male Hysterics: Screening Silent Resistance -- Subtle Agency in European Cinematography of War Hysteria in the First World War Julia Barbara Köhne (Humboldt University, Berlin).- 3. “Always had a pronouncedly psychopathic predisposition”. The Significance of Social Class and Military Rank in the German Psychiatric Discourse on Officers’ Neuroses in the First World War Gundula Gahlen (Free University, Berlin).- Part II: Traumatized Civilians in the Wake of the Great War.- 4. Violence, Trauma, and Memory in Ireland: the Psychological Impact of War and Revolution on a Liminal Society, 1916-1923 Justin Dolan Stover (Idaho State University).- 5. Gender, Memory and the Great War: the Politics ofWar Victimhood in Interwar Germany Silke Fehlemann (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf) and Nils Löffelbein (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main).- 6. Subjectivities in the aftermath: Children of Disabled Soldiers in Britain between the Wars Michael Roper (University of Essex).- 7. “Entrenched from Life”: The Impossible Reintegration of Traumatized French Veterans of the Great War Marie Derrien (Rhône-Alpes Laboratory of Historical Research in Lyon).- Part III: Traumatized Medical Cultures.- 8. Making Sense of War Neurosis in Yugoslavia Heike Karge (Regensburg University).- 9. „Everything ruined, which seemed most stable in the world...“ - The German Medical Profession, the First World War and the road to the „Third Reich“ Livia Prüll (University of Mainz).- 10. Medical Experiences with Violence and Starvation in Psychiatry: The First World War as a Catalyst for the National Socialist ‚Euthanasia‘ Program Philipp Rauh (University of Erlangen, Nuremberg).- Part IV: A Coda on Trauma.- 11. Toward a Global History of Trauma Mark S. Micale (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

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Jason Crouthamel is an Associate Professor of history at Grand Valley State University, USA. He is the author of An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality and German Soldiers in the First World War (2014) and The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma, 1914-1945 (2009). He is also the co-editor, with Peter Leese, of Traumatic Memories of World War Two and After (2016).Peter Leese is Associate Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His publications include Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War (2002), Britain Since 1945: Aspects of Identity (2006). Together with Jason Crouthamel he is also the co-editor of Traumatic Memories of World War Two and After (2016).

• Introduction Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University) and Peter Leese (University of Copenhagen).- Part I: Battles over Representations and Perceptions of Traumatized Men.- 1. Losing Face: trauma and maxillofacial injury in the First World War Fiona Reid (University of South Wales).- 2. Male Hysterics: Screening Silent Resistance -- Subtle Agency in European Cinematography of War Hysteria in the First World War Julia Barbara Köhne (Humboldt University, Berlin).- 3. “Always had a pronouncedly psychopathic predisposition”. The Significance of Social Class and Military Rank in the German Psychiatric Discourse on Officers’ Neuroses in the First World War Gundula Gahlen (Free University, Berlin).- Part II: Traumatized Civilians in the Wake of the Great War.- 4. Violence, Trauma, and Memory in Ireland: the Psychological Impact of War and Revolution on a Liminal Society, 1916-1923 Justin Dolan Stover (Idaho State University).- 5. Gender, Memory and the Great War: the Politics ofWar Victimhood in Interwar Germany Silke Fehlemann (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf) and Nils Löffelbein (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main).- 6. Subjectivities in the aftermath: Children of Disabled Soldiers in Britain between the Wars Michael Roper (University of Essex).- 7. “Entrenched from Life”: The Impossible Reintegration of Traumatized French Veterans of the Great War Marie Derrien (Rhône-Alpes Laboratory of Historical Research in Lyon).- Part III: Traumatized Medical Cultures.- 8. Making Sense of War Neurosis in Yugoslavia Heike Karge (Regensburg University).- 9. „Everything ruined, which seemed most stable in the world...“ - The German Medical Profession, the First World War and the road to the „Third Reich“ Livia Prüll (University of Mainz).- 10. Medical Experiences with Violence and Starvation in Psychiatry: The First World War as a Catalyst for the National Socialist ‚Euthanasia‘ Program Philipp Rauh (University of Erlangen, Nuremberg).- Part IV: A Coda on Trauma.- 11. Toward a Global History of Trauma Mark S. Micale (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

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Jason Crouthamel is an Associate Professor of history at Grand Valley State University, USA. He is the author of An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality and German Soldiers in the First World War (2014) and The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma, 1914-1945 (2009). He is also the co-editor, with Peter Leese, of Traumatic Memories of World War Two and After (2016).Peter Leese is Associate Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His publications include Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War (2002), Britain Since 1945: Aspects of Identity (2006). Together with Jason Crouthamel he is also the co-editor of Traumatic Memories of World War Two and After (2016).

• Introduction Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University) and Peter Leese (University of Copenhagen).- Part I: Battles over Representations and Perceptions of Traumatized Men.- 1. Losing Face: trauma and maxillofacial injury in the First World War Fiona Reid (University of South Wales).- 2. Male Hysterics: Screening Silent Resistance -- Subtle Agency in European Cinematography of War Hysteria in the First World War Julia Barbara Köhne (Humboldt University, Berlin).- 3. “Always had a pronouncedly psychopathic predisposition”. The Significance of Social Class and Military Rank in the German Psychiatric Discourse on Officers’ Neuroses in the First World War Gundula Gahlen (Free University, Berlin).- Part II: Traumatized Civilians in the Wake of the Great War.- 4. Violence, Trauma, and Memory in Ireland: the Psychological Impact of War and Revolution on a Liminal Society, 1916-1923 Justin Dolan Stover (Idaho State University).- 5. Gender, Memory and the Great War: the Politics ofWar Victimhood in Interwar Germany Silke Fehlemann (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf) and Nils Löffelbein (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main).- 6. Subjectivities in the aftermath: Children of Disabled Soldiers in Britain between the Wars Michael Roper (University of Essex).- 7. “Entrenched from Life”: The Impossible Reintegration of Traumatized French Veterans of the Great War Marie Derrien (Rhône-Alpes Laboratory of Historical Research in Lyon).- Part III: Traumatized Medical Cultures.- 8. Making Sense of War Neurosis in Yugoslavia Heike Karge (Regensburg University).- 9. „Everything ruined, which seemed most stable in the world...“ - The German Medical Profession, the First World War and the road to the „Third Reich“ Livia Prüll (University of Mainz).- 10. Medical Experiences with Violence and Starvation in Psychiatry: The First World War as a Catalyst for the National Socialist ‚Euthanasia‘ Program Philipp Rauh (University of Erlangen, Nuremberg).- Part IV: A Coda on Trauma.- 11. Toward a Global History of Trauma Mark S. Micale (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

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