1. Trauma, psychiatry and history: a conceptual and historiographical introduction Paul Lerner and Mark S. Micale

Part I. Travel and Trauma in the Victorian Era: 2. The railway accident: trains, trauma and technological crisis in nineteenth-century Britain Ralph Harrington

3. Trains and trauma in the American gilded age Eric Caplan

Part II. Work, Accidents and Trauma in the Early Welfare State: 4. Events, series, trauma: the probabilistic revolution of the mind in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Wolfgang Schaffner

5. The German welfare state as a discourse of trauma Greg A. Eghigian

Part III. Theorizing Trauma: Psychiatry and Modernity at the Turn of the Century: 6. Jean-Martin Charcot and 'les nevroses traumatiques': from medicine to culture in French trauma theory of the late nineteenth century Mark S. Micale

7. From traumatic neurosis to male hysteria: the decline and fall of Hermann Oppenheim, 1889-1919 Paul Lerner

8. The construction of female sexual trauma in American mental medicine at the turn of the century Lisa Cardyn

Part IV. Shock, Trauma and Psychiatry in the First World War: 9.'Why are they not cured?': British shellshock treatment during the Great War Peter Leese

10. Psychiatrists, soldiers and officers in Italy during the Great War Bruna Bianchi

11. 'A Battle of Nerves': hysteria and its treatments in France during World War I Marc Roudebush

13. 'Invisible wounds': the American legion, shell-shocked veterans, and mental illness, 1919-1924 Caroline Cox.