Letter to Robbie Ross, 26 July 1917. Sassoon Papers.London: Imperial War Museum
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Sassoon Seigfried. The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston.London: Faber & Faber, 1981; Pat Barker, The Regeneration Trilogy. London: Viking, 1991. Regeneration, film based on Pat Barker, directed by Gilles Mckinnon, and released on DVD. London: Artificial Eye, 1997. Not About Heroes, stage play by Stephen McDonald. Admission and Discharge Registers For Craiglockhart War Hospital. PRO MH 106. Kew: Public Record Office, 1887–1902. Anonymous account of Craiglockhart, Rivers Papers. London: Imperial War Museum Archive
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The Chronology of the hospital in the previous accounts (e.g. Leese PaulJ.The Social And Cultural History Of Shellshock [PhD Thesis]. Milton Keynes: Open University, 1989; Showalter Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830–1980. London: Virago, 1987; Slobodin Richard. W. H. R. Rivers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978) all start their accounts with a description of based on Macdonnell AG. England, Their England, 1933, which is discussed later in this article
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Sassoon Siegfried. Sherston's Progress.London: Faber & Faber, 1936. ‘A handful of highly-qualified civilians in uniform were up against the usual red-tape ideas… the military authorities regarded [war hospitals for nervous disorders] as experiments which needed careful watching and firm handling.’ (p.15). Sassoon changes the name of the hospital to Slateford, the village close to the hydro building (p. 15)
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MacdonnellA.G.England, Their EnglandLondon: Macmillan, 1936: 17–18
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Craiglockhart War Hospital Admission and Discharge Registers. PRO MH 106. Kew: Public Record Office, 1887–1902
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JohnBrock Arthur. The Re-Education of the Adult: The Neurasthenic In war and Peace.Sociol Rev1918; X: 25–41 (see p. 30)
MartinStone. Shellshock and the psychologists. In: BynumW., PorterR., ShepherdsM., eds. The Anatomy of Madness, Vol. 2, Chap. 2. London: Tavistock, 1985: 242–71. Stone, perhaps, best sums up the traditional view of Craiglockhart's supposed purpose: ‘designed to bring about the rapid return of soldiers to the front line before they were “lost in the system” ‘
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Archives MH 106.Kew: Public Record Office, 1887, 1889, 1893 especially
JohnBrock Arthur. The Re-Education of the Adult: The Neurasthenic In war and Peace.Sociol Rev1918; X: 25–41. ‘Happily we see on every side signs that the authorities are becoming alive to this fact. These officers, when unsuited for further combatant duty or even for home service, are now being taken by other State Departments—as by the Boards of Shipping, Agriculture, Timber Supply, Munitions—and, when properly selected, they seldom fail to acquit themselves with the greatest credit.’
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The Hydra, April 28th 1917; July 7th 1917; December 1917, Editorial & June 1918
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WilfredOwen. Mental cases. In: JonStallworthy, ed. Wilfred Owen: the Complete Poems and Fragments.London: Chatto & Windus, 1983: 117.
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WilfredOwen. Dulce et Decorum Est.. In: JonStallworthy, ed. Wilfred Owen: the Complete Poems and Fragments.London: Chatto & Windus, 1983: 117.
A previous volunteer at Craiglockhart Hospital written following Rivers’ early death. Dr Rivers and the Young Officers.Times 14 June 1922
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BenShephard. ‘The Early Treatment Of Mental Disorders’. R.G. Rows and Maghull 1914–18. In: BerriosG.E., FreemanH., eds. 150 Years Of British Psychiatry.London: Athlone, 1991