The Finnish attitudes to "war neurosis" were especially tough.

Some patients there suffered from what was then called "war neurosis" and is now known as post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Over the years, the problems have had many names, shell shock, battle fatigue, war neurosis and combat stress, among others.

A century after that, the term war neurosis was rejected and combat fatigue was adopted.

Even in 1978, he said, "there was not a single book in the Boston Veterans Administration library on war neurosis."

He had gone briefly to a psychiatrist who specialized in the war neuroses of upper-middle-class and wealthy veterans, preferably ex-officers.

Although the disorder has been known for a long time (it was once called war neurosis), even in adults its many causes and manifestations often go unrecognized.

Wolpe was entrusted to treat soldiers who were diagnosed with what was then called "war neurosis" but today is known as post traumatic stress disorder.

Another German psychiatrist reported after the war that during the last two years, about a third of all hospitalisations at Ensen were due to war neurosis.

His treatment for war neurosis was simple: the patients were to be bullied and harassed as long as they were unwilling to return to front line service.

He published i.a. on aphasia, blindsight, headache, war neuroses, hysteria, olfactory hallucinations, eclamptic psychosis.

Previous diagnoses now considered historical equivalents of PTSD include railway spine, stress syndrome, shell shock, battle fatigue, or traumatic war neurosis.

The wound is called post-traumatic stress disorder, but long before 1980, when it first received official psychiatric recognition, it was known as battle fatigue, shell shock or war neurosis.

In October 1917, while he was at Craiglockhart, one of the most famous hospitals for curing officers with war neuroses, he wrote a poem, simply called 'Survivors':

PTSD has been recognized in the past by different names, like shell shock, traumatic war neurosis, or post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS).

Owen introduces himself hesitantly to Sassoon when the latter arrives at Craiglockhart in 1917, having been diagnosed as suffering from "war neurosis" as a result of his protest against the war.

In 1974, Shatan found out that "traumatic war neurosis" had been eliminated from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is used to delineate psychological disorders.

According to one survey published in 1917, while the ratio of officers to men at the front was 1:30, among patients in hospitals specialising in war neuroses, the ratio of officers to men was 1:6.

Pyle publicly apologized to his readers in a column on September 5, 1944, that he had "lost track of the point of the war", and that another two weeks of coverage would have seen him hospitalized with war neurosis.

His pioneering work on the treatment of war neurosis with psychoanalytic methods drew him to the attention of Sigmund Freud, who would build explicitly on his work in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921).

While he "admitted", as Myers describes, "the conflict of social factors with the sexual instincts in certain psychoneuroses" of civilian life, he saw the instinct of self-preservation rather than the sexual instinct, as the driving force behind war neuroses.

This first attempt to include the notion that the aim of some instincts seems to be to return to an earlier stage of development, to inanimate matter, was based on his observations of war neuroses and on the compulsion to repeat earlier emotional relationships in the analytic situation.

He discovered that soldiers coming off the battlefields of World War I suffering from so-called war neuroses dreamed not, as he would have expected, of a world made once again whole and safe - his theory of dreams being that they gratified deep-seated wishes - but of the event that had shattered their psyches.