Reintegrating Bodies and Minds

In Reintegrating Bodies and Minds, Pieter Verstraete and Christine Van Everbroeck examine the impact of World War I on Belgian soldiers' bodies and minds. Based on unexplored archives, personal documents, and existing historical overviews of initiatives taken during and immediately after World War I to reintegrate Belgian military invalids into the army and society, are reconstructed. The result is a poignant and disconcerting story in which a rather unknown fragment of Belgian history is revealed.



Reintegrating Bodies and Minds: Disabled Belgian Soldiers of the Great War has been described as a pioneering publication in the field of war history, the history of psychology and education, and the history of psychiatry.