# Before Trauma: Nostalgia, or the Melancholy of War

Kluge Fellow Thomas Dodman discusses 18th and 19th century psychological designations of the impact of mass warfare on the human psyche -- a predecessor of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- and insights into the inner, emotional lives of common people at the dawn of the modern age.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- By: John W. Kluge Center (library Of Congress)
- Genres: War, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689854/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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