🎧 Shellshock with Suzie Grogan
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 24m
Suzie Grogan talks about the 'hidden illness' of World War One, now better known as shellshock or PTSD. Dan chats with her about the initial reception to cases of shellshock and how diagnoses changed as we understood the problem better over time.
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