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Aberration of Mind Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South

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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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Main Author: Sommerville, Diane Miller (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2018
Subjects:
American Civil War
History of the Americas
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
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