Aberration of Mind
More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, givi...
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| description | More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed. With a thorough examination of the dynamics of both racial and gendered dimensions of psychological distress, Sommerville reveals how the suffering experienced by Southerners living in a war zone generated trauma that, in extreme cases, led some Southerners to contemplate or act on suicidal thoughts. Sommerville recovers previously hidden stories of individuals exhibiting suicidal activity or aberrant psychological behavior she links to the war and its aftermath. This work adds crucial nuance to our understanding of how personal suffering shaped the way southerners viewed themselves in the Civil War era and underscores the full human costs of war. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1220852025-03-21T03:37:16Z Aberration of Mind Sommerville, Diane Miller Civil War Reconstruction war trauma suicide PTSD Confederates Confederate soldiers Confederate veterans slaves freedmen and freedwomen emancipation mental illness history of medicine post-partum depression suffering southern women lunatic asylum POWs Lost Cause depression Confederate nationalism masculinity manhood gender paternalism More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed. With a thorough examination of the dynamics of both racial and gendered dimensions of psychological distress, Sommerville reveals how the suffering experienced by Southerners living in a war zone generated trauma that, in extreme cases, led some Southerners to contemplate or act on suicidal thoughts. Sommerville recovers previously hidden stories of individuals exhibiting suicidal activity or aberrant psychological behavior she links to the war and its aftermath. This work adds crucial nuance to our understanding of how personal suffering shaped the way southerners viewed themselves in the Civil War era and underscores the full human costs of war. 2023-11-17T09:25:51Z 2023-11-17T09:25:51Z 2023-10-19T07:43:41Z 2018 book ONIX_20231019_9798890854568_7 OCN: 1054245896 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76868 9798890854568 9781469643304 9781469643564 9781469643571 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122085 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76868/1/9798890854568.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76868/1/9798890854568.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76868/1/9798890854568.pdf The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469643588_Sommerville 10.5149/9781469643588_Sommerville f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 National Endowment for the Humanities 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9798890854568 9781469643304 9781469643564 9781469643571 The University of North Carolina Press 448 Chapel Hill [...] open access |
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