Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMost evocative is Bennette's ascertainment that dissenters, whether traumatized or not, often found ways to voice their dissent—she argues that they exercised 'personal agency'—to military psychiatrists. A welcome addition to World War I studies.
* Choice *
Drawing from meticulous research into patient records, Bennette complicates the picture [of conscientious objection as medical pathology].
* Foreign Affairs *
Diagnosing Dissent is well-written and researched. Bennette's use of patient case files not only makes her arguments more compelling but also provides detailed and telling anecdotes about individual soldiers' lives that balance out the potentially sterile, cold language of contemporary psychiatric literature.
* The Journal of Military History *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Antecedents: Psychiatry, the Military, and Pacifism in Late Imperial Germany
2. Hysterics and Other Patients: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Negotiation
3. Deserters: Delinquency, Psychological Disorder, and Dissent
4. Conscientious Objectors: Objects of Examination and Subjects with Agency
Epilogue
