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Radio 3,5 mins

New Generation Thinker 2014: Tiffany Watt-Smith explores war neuroses and shell shock after World War One.

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Tiffany Watt-Smith gives us a fresh assessment of one of the war’s most celebrated cinematic accounts of shell shock and its treatment – War Neuroses. A medical film made in 1917, which is still disturbing today. Tiffany Watt-Smith from Queen Mary, University of London is one of this year's New Generation.

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