Long term shellshock/neurasthenia treatments in England

[shuffleduck]

Story Setting: Early 1920s England, Post-WW1 Britain.
Search Terms: long term shell shock treatment / shell shock dietary regime
/ post war shell shock treatment / officers shell shock world war one / world war one shell shock case study / neurasthenia treatment 1920s / shell shock rehabilitation

Hi!

I'm writing in post-World War I 1920s England and I'

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[duckodeath]

You definitely want to read Dorothy L. Sayers.

For watching, and this is more specifically about upper class people, I'd recommend the original Brideshead Revisited mini-series which has a significant portion set in the 1920s.

[shuffleduck]

Excellent, several of my characters are upper class so that's perfect. :)

Ha, I'm totally going to be raiding libraries and bookstores for Dorothy L. Sayers tomorrow!

[corvideye]

Great delights await you! Sayers novels are a roaring good time.

[alextiefling]

Seconded! She covers a fairly comprehensive range of social classes of the era, too. Lord Peter himself is obviously upper aristocracy, but there are servants (Bunter), middle-class police officers (Parker), academics (Harriet), advertising executives (in Murder Must Advertise), travelling salesmen (Montague Egg and his colleagues, in the short stories), artists (in the Five Red Herrings), and so on.

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[alextiefling]

The original novel of 'Brideshead Revisited' is also great, and surprisingly short. I see other Waugh recommendations further down, which I'd echo. Also good is the history book 'Singled Out', by (IIRC) Victoria Nicholson, which is about the gender gap in the inter-war period as a result of so many men dying in the Great War.

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[alextiefling]

I have no idea how I came to title this thread "Out", by the way. I don't remember doing that at all!