Nostalgia & War (Civil War Psychiatry)

Shared by Yaw Boateng • medicine, civil war, neurosis • 1863

"By and by the way Have you ever heard the words I'm singing in these songs? It's for the girl I've loved all along" -Smashing Pumpkins (Muzzle) ---- Anderson, Donald Lee, and Godfrey Tryggve Anderson. "Nostalgia and Malingering in the Military during the Civil War." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 28.1 (1984): 156-166. [ "The American Civil War witnessed a revival of nostalgia, a mental disorder that had created problems for armies for centuries. It is not within the scope of this study to trace the origins of nostalgia in detail. If we were to attempt this we might begin in early biblic