Before Trauma: Nostalgia, or the Melancholy of War

Kluge Fellow Thomas Dodman discusses 18th and 19th century psychological designations of the impact of mass warfare on the human psyche — a predecessor of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — and insights into the inner, emotional lives of common people at the dawn of the modern age. Speaker Biography: Thomas Dodman is assistant professor of… Read More »