1917

Thomas Salmon travels to England to study British treatment of shell shocked solders, where it was by then accepted that shell shock was a real disorder (not malingering) but one that could be readily treated psychologically. Salmon, appointed director of psychiatry for the AEF at year end, accepted the role of psychological factors but stressed the vulnerability of individuals, not the conditions of fighting. He rejected the term “shell shock” because by 1917 evidence showed only small number of cases occurred in presence of shell fire (Brown IV).