03068cam a2200601 4500 2797898658 TxAuBib 20260625120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781469643571 146964357X B07BB5W66G Amazon 5f21dd6b-97ac-43c8-bc31-ddf4307b82c3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3891730 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Sommerville, Diane Miller. Aberration of Mind [Bridges eBook] : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South. The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Confederate nationalism. freedmen and freedwomen. post-partum depression. confederate soldiers. Confederate Veterans. history of medicine. Lunatic Asylum. reconstruction. mental illness. southern women. Confederates. emancipation. paternalism. masculinity. depression. lost cause. War trauma. Civil War. suffering. manhood. Suicide. Slaves. gender. PTSD. POWs. HTML:More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In <i>Aberration of Mind</i>, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed. With a thorough examination of the dynamics of both racial and gendered dimensions of psychological distress, Sommerville reveals how the suffering experienced by Southerners living in a war zone generated trauma that, in extreme cases, led some Southerners to contemplate or act on suicidal thoughts.<br /> Sommerville recovers previously hidden stories of individuals exhibiting suicidal activity or aberrant psychological behavior she links to the war and its aftermath. This work adds crucial nuance to our understanding of how personal suffering shaped the way southerners viewed themselves in the Civil War era and underscores the full human costs of war. Nonfiction. Military. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-06-23 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5f21dd6b-97ac-43c8-bc31-ddf4307b82c3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5f21dd6b-97ac-43c8-bc31-ddf4307b82c3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)