Elizabeth Roberts‐Pedersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5548523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Roberts‐Pedersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts‐Pedersen |
| SIGNATURE | PEDERSEN E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9968-3195 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Towards a (bio)cultural history of the brain
Histories of ideas about the brain, and of the brain itself, are relevant for historians studying mental health and madness. This review article outlines the development of the concept of ‘neurohistory’, its potential applications and pitfalls, as well as the benefits of engaging critically with neuroscience
Accident Conscious
During the Second World War the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) systematically categorized every operational and non-operational flying accident. Despite a broader service focus on ‘pilot error’, our comprehensive database of 601 RAAF Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk accident reports suggests that non-human factors were perceived as more determinative than human failings. Incorporating wartime Royal Air Force and US Army Air Force analyses, this article …
Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific
This wide-ranging collection advances a comprehensive overview of national approaches to the care of the mentally ill in the Asia–Pacific region as well as the complex histories undergirding these measures. At the heart of such an endeavour is the epistemological problem of what constitutes ‘mental health’ in a global context and the degree to which mental illness can be understood in universal, biomedical or cultural terms. The notion of ‘global…
The Entanglements of Europe
Europe is a continent of extraordinary variety and diversity geographically, ethnically, nationally, culturally, economically and politically. Yet at the same time all its parts are and always have been so deeply linked by their destiny that this continent can accurately be described as a single albeit complex political entity. Anything crucial in any area of human endeavour occurring anywhere in Europe always has had both direct and indirect con…
Adam Montgomery, The Invisible Injured
This insightful book offers a welcome focus on the Canadian experience of psychological distress in the wars of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. While the historiography of battlefield trauma in the twentieth century is well-rehearsed (the customary ‘shell shock to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder’ trajectory), there is now scope to begin integrating the consequences of the peacekeeping missions of the last decades of the twentieth c…
Against universalism
The Hard School
While accounts of the practice of military psychiatry during the Second World War have tended to emphasise the development of psychodynamic innovations such as therapeutic communities and group therapy in treating patients with war neurosis, this article explores the parallel use of ‘physical treatments’ by British practitioners during the conflict. Focusing on the work of William Sargant and his collaborators at the Sutton Emergency Hospital, it…
Damage
While the figure of the ‘shell-shocked’ veteran of the First World War is a customary archetype in histories of that conflict, the soldier suffering from ‘war neurosis’ in the aftermath of the Second World War is a less familiar character in accounts of that era. Yet as I argue in this article, in the Australian context medical and popular ideas about the ‘war neurotic’ serviceman – in particular, the notion that he was irreparably psychologicall…
A Weak Spot in the Personality? Conceptualising “War Neurosis” in British Medical Literature of the Second World War
Through an analysis of leading British medical journals during the Second World War, this article argues that psychiatric understandings of the “war neurosis” suffered by British servicemen during that conflict were predicated on a notion of the “neurotic serviceman” as an objective personality type predisposed to break down during the strain of wartime. By discounting the effects of traumatic war experiences in favour of an aetiology that locate…
The Spanish Precedent British Volunteers in The Russo-Finnish War
This article explores British policy towards the Russo-Finnish War, with particular emphasis on the rationale for the dispatch of British volunteers in the final weeks of the conflict. This hasty expedition was the culmination of months of temporising by the War Cabinet as it contemplated the possibility of combining aid to the Finns with broader schemes for intervention in Scandinavia. Though the volunteers did not fire a shot, and though they s…
Social Classes and Social Relations in Britain, 1850-1914
Abortion in England, 1900-1967
"Artifice and Ironic Perspective in Rimbaud's "Ville
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"Artifice and Ironic Perspective in Rimbaud's "Ville
Abortion in England, 1900-1967
Social Classes and Social Relations in Britain, 1850-1914
The Spanish Precedent British Volunteers in The Russo-Finnish War
This article explores British policy towards the Russo-Finnish War, with particular emphasis on the rationale for the dispatch of British volunteers in the final weeks of the conflict. This hasty expedition was the culmination of months of temporising by the War Cabinet as it contemplated the possibility of combining aid to the Finns with broader schemes for intervention in Scandinavia. Though the volunteers did not fire a shot, and though they s…
A Weak Spot in the Personality? Conceptualising “War Neurosis” in British Medical Literature of the Second World War
Through an analysis of leading British medical journals during the Second World War, this article argues that psychiatric understandings of the “war neurosis” suffered by British servicemen during that conflict were predicated on a notion of the “neurotic serviceman” as an objective personality type predisposed to break down during the strain of wartime. By discounting the effects of traumatic war experiences in favour of an aetiology that locate…
Damage
While the figure of the ‘shell-shocked’ veteran of the First World War is a customary archetype in histories of that conflict, the soldier suffering from ‘war neurosis’ in the aftermath of the Second World War is a less familiar character in accounts of that era. Yet as I argue in this article, in the Australian context medical and popular ideas about the ‘war neurotic’ serviceman – in particular, the notion that he was irreparably psychologicall…
Against universalism
The Hard School
While accounts of the practice of military psychiatry during the Second World War have tended to emphasise the development of psychodynamic innovations such as therapeutic communities and group therapy in treating patients with war neurosis, this article explores the parallel use of ‘physical treatments’ by British practitioners during the conflict. Focusing on the work of William Sargant and his collaborators at the Sutton Emergency Hospital, it…
The Entanglements of Europe
Europe is a continent of extraordinary variety and diversity geographically, ethnically, nationally, culturally, economically and politically. Yet at the same time all its parts are and always have been so deeply linked by their destiny that this continent can accurately be described as a single albeit complex political entity. Anything crucial in any area of human endeavour occurring anywhere in Europe always has had both direct and indirect con…
Adam Montgomery, The Invisible Injured
This insightful book offers a welcome focus on the Canadian experience of psychological distress in the wars of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. While the historiography of battlefield trauma in the twentieth century is well-rehearsed (the customary ‘shell shock to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder’ trajectory), there is now scope to begin integrating the consequences of the peacekeeping missions of the last decades of the twentieth c…
Accident Conscious
During the Second World War the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) systematically categorized every operational and non-operational flying accident. Despite a broader service focus on ‘pilot error’, our comprehensive database of 601 RAAF Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk accident reports suggests that non-human factors were perceived as more determinative than human failings. Incorporating wartime Royal Air Force and US Army Air Force analyses, this article …
Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific
This wide-ranging collection advances a comprehensive overview of national approaches to the care of the mentally ill in the Asia–Pacific region as well as the complex histories undergirding these measures. At the heart of such an endeavour is the epistemological problem of what constitutes ‘mental health’ in a global context and the degree to which mental illness can be understood in universal, biomedical or cultural terms. The notion of ‘global…
Towards a (bio)cultural history of the brain
Histories of ideas about the brain, and of the brain itself, are relevant for historians studying mental health and madness. This review article outlines the development of the concept of ‘neurohistory’, its potential applications and pitfalls, as well as the benefits of engaging critically with neuroscience
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