Main description:

As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers' invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions-families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs-mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers' bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers' invisible wounds.

Contents:

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Weary Warriors Walk Among Us: Combat, Knowledge Circulation, and Naming Traumatized Soldiers

Chapter 1. Ravished Minds and Ill Bodies: Power, Embodiment, Dispositifs

Chapter 2. Unsettling Notions: War Neuroses, Soldiering, and Broken Embodiments

Chapter 3. Classifying Bodies through Diagnosis: Knowledges, Locations, and Categorical Enclosures

Chapter 4. Managing Illness through Power: Regulation, Resistance and Truth Games

Chapter 5. Cultural Accounts of the Soldier as Subject: Folds, Disclosures and Enactments

Chapter 6. Fixing Soldiers: The Treatment of Bodies, Minds, and Souls

Chapter 7. The Soldier in Context: Psychiatric Practices, Military Imperatives, and Masculine Ideals

Chapter 8. Soldiering On: Care of Self, Status Passages, and Citizenship Claims

Chapter 9. Military Bodies and Battles Multiple: Embodied Trauma, Ontological Politics, and Patchwork Warriors

References

Index