War in the head : how the army dealt with some of its psychiatric casualties during the second world war.

Recollections of the Northfield Military Psychiatric Hospital. Contains audio extracts from former staff and patients. In 1942, the former Holymore Hospital, became the Northfield Military Psychiatric Hospital, which was to become the largest such military institution in the country. During the period of the war, and for a short time after, several new types of treatment were used, which included the use of electrodes, injections of Sodium Pentathol (the truth drug), Freudian psychoanalysis & T̀he Northfield Experiment'. Contains very moving accounts from those who witnessed patients suffering severe war-neurosis, and discusses how effectives some of the treatments were.