23 Jan 1941 - BRITAIN'S NETWORK OF MIND HOSPITALS LONDON, Janu... 30 Aug 1940 - Psychologists are Mobilised To Fight "Shell Shock" Psychologists are Mobilised I To Fight "Shell Shock" London, (By Air Mail). -Costly and patient psychological treatment, such as at one time was only available to the wealthy, will now be at the dis posal of every soldier suffering from "shell shock. " But the tei in "shell shock'' itself is no longer used. Today every case is medically graded into special clas ses of nervous disorders, and the most advanced treatment, including . hypnotism, suggestion, and other j forms of psychotherapy is used. j Remarkable results by the use of i hypnotic treatment of soldiers affect- j ed in the Dunkirk retreat have al-; ready been achieved and .reported in ' the medical journals. j Behind these stories lies a scheme [ which the War Office has instituted! To mobilise psychological experts j throughout the country for thi^ work.
Shell shock exacted a heavy toll in the last war, and it is estimated that there are still nearly 40,000 uncur ed cases in hospitals and rest centres : today. Famous Professor Freud. 27 Aug 1940 - DUNKIRK SOLDIERS. Cured by Hypnotism, Plans to F... DUNKIRK SOLDIERS. Cured by Hypnotum. Plans to Firfit~'Shell Shock.' jtJONDON, July IS. (By Air Mail.) Soldiers bask from Dunkirk hava been cured from nervous disorders by mean, of hypaoUam. .Behind these atorles of successful treatment lies a. scheme which the British War Office has instituted to mobilise psychological experts throughout the country for this work.
19 Nov 1940 - DUNKIRK SHELL SHOCK CASES. Dispute Over Treatment. Dispute Over Treatment. LONDON, September 21.— (By Air Mall.)— What Is the right treatment for soldiers suffering from shell, shock T The question has given rite to controveroy among doctors In Rnc land and hat led to two resignation! Fram ft war nfmrnaln eentro Tha rfAc tors who have resigned, Dr. John Bowlby and Dr. Called them coward! ' 20 Nov 1940 - DUNKIRK SHELL SHOCK CASES. LONDON, September 21. —(By Air Mail.) —What is the right treatment for soldiers suffering from shell shock? The question has given rise to controversy among doctor* in i;*nsi land and has led to'two resignation* from a war neurosis centre, vhi- rl"— tors who have resigned, Dr.
John Bowlby and Dr. Deal with the sudden demand after Dunkirk. They state that they found the cen ire unequipped to receive the men. havinr virtually nothing except bed* and a (psycblatrically) untrained nursing staff. ? ' leg. 'The director, who was a neuro iogijt, disagreed with uc, holding thai except for the few whd ware exhaust ed, concussed or psychotic, the men were not. ill, but in need of discipline and somewhat forceful encouragement His frequent use of the term •scrlm •bankere' and liis constant concern last we be Imposed upon by t)ie "men lit • Os in no doubt About his real opinion of them. " The two doctors add thM many *>? Where. " About A.K. Chesterton - Candour Magazine & A.K. Chesterton Trust. Dunkirk anniversary: The brave British soldiers who were TRUE heroes. By Hugh Sebag Montefiore Updated: 08:36 GMT, 27 May 2010 Their bodies lie piled outside the French farm where the Nazis shot them as prisoners.
Now, 70 years on, we reveal the unflinching valour of the British soldiers who stayed behind to let their comrades escape at Dunkirk. Bloody corpses lay spreadeagled on the sand, and all around them there was devastation. Beside the burned-out ships that had made it to the shore, the beach was littered with decaying horses, charred lorries and scattered items of clothing. This was the apocalyptic scene that greeted German soldiers when they finally made it to the Dunkirk beaches on June 4, 1940 - 70 years ago. Atrocity: The aftermath of the Le Paradis massacre, which saw 97 British prisoners massacred after surrendering to SS troops on May 27, 1040 There was not a living British soldier to be seen. But this most British of achievements is only part of the story. The burned-out lorry was full of charred corpses I heard screams as wounded men were wounded.
Adrian Hamilton: 'A great escape? Dunkirk was actually a humiliation for British forces' - This Britain - UK. A couple of months after being sent to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force, 2nd Lt Denis Hamilton was part of the beaten and outmanoeuvred army that retreated chaotically to the French coast to clamber aboard the little ships that took them to the bigger ships to take them back from whence they had come. "I came back with more men than I went out with," he later told me. "We kept picking up stragglers; some had been deserted by their officers. " If Dunkirk has gone down as a heroic defeat, it wasn't like that to those who took part.
It was a shambles, in which a poorly trained and under-equipped army was totally outflanked and outfought by two superior German armies invading France through Belgium towards Antwerp in the north and, completely unexpectedly, through the Ardennes in the south. My father, in the Durham Light Infantry, never elaborated about officers deserting their men. It was the cheering, not the battle, for which Dunkirk was remembered. WW2 People's War - Falling Back to Dunkirk, 7th MAC British Expeditionary Force (Part 3) Collections Search for "Evacuation at Dunkirk" IWM’s collections cover all aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict involving Britain, the Commonwealth and other former empire countries.
They were intended to record the 'toil and sacrifice' of every individual affected by war. Our collections stretch from the everyday to the exceptional. They contain some of the most important technical, social, economic, political, personal and cultural artefacts relating to Britain and its role in twentieth-century conflict. The scale, depth, breadth and range of media – art, film photographs, sound, new media, writings and objects – contain the reactions, memories and stories of the whole of society. Alongside the material that has been commissioned or created for official or military purposes are the personal responses to eye-witnessed events and the tokens that ordinary people have given to IWM so that their experience of war, or that of their family, can be passed on to future generations. British Dunkirk Evacuation Footage- Operation Dynamo 1940.