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A 3 page overview of this based-on-fact expose of the field of psychiatry during World War I. This book tells the story of English officer and poet Siegfried Sassoon and his interactions with psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital outside Edinburgh. Sassoon has refused to fight and been declared shell shocked. Rivers struggles with the question of whether it is ethical to treat Sassoon and his other patients with the sole goal of sending them back into armed warfare. No additional sources are listed.
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into the psychological havoc leveled during World War I. In part, it tells the story of English officer and poet Siegfried Sassoon. Although Sassoon has previously racked up
many military honors for his bravery and dedication, he has made a written statement declaring war a "senseless slaughter" and contending that it was "being deliberately prolonged by those who
have the power to end it". When Sassoon refuses to fight he is pronounced mentally disturbed and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital outside Edinburgh for treatment. At the
hospital Sassoon is evaluated and "treated" by Dr. William Rivers who is hurled into a dilemma, not only over Sassoons apparent sanity but on many ethical aspects of the
war, in particular his obligations to his other patients as contrasted with his obligations to the military and the wars philosophical basis. Rivers life is even further complicated by
those in his charge that are not as fortunate as Sassoon, those that walk the narrow line between madness and self-awareness and insight.
Although parts of Barkers book are fiction, much of it is based in truth. Rivers and Sassoon alike, for example, are real-life characters. Rivers was a
well known psychologist during the war. Serving in Scotland and England he treated not only Sassoon but a multitude of soldiers like him. In Barkers book Rivers recognizes that
the militarys goal, and consequently the hospitals, is not necessarily to restore true wellness in men like Sassoon or his more fictional character Billy Prior but rather to return them
to active duty. The power-wielding conformist of Barkers book, however, will not yield till this goal has been accomplished. Consequently, this goal becomes a major obstacle as Rivers
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