World War I Lecture Series lecture by Paul Lerner February 22, 2015 Getty Center Historian Paul Lerner situates the massive wave of debilitating trauma that afflicted combatants on all sides of World War I within the context of competing early-20th-century psychiatric theories, as scientists, doctors, and military commanders attempted to stem the tide of this sudden and unexpected epidemic. Paul Lerner is an associate professor of history at the University of Southern California. For more about this event, visit the Getty Research Institute's website: www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/ww1/ This lecture series complements the exhibition “World War I: War of Images, Images of War,” on view in the Getty Research Institute galleries November 18, 2014, to April 19, 2015: www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/ww1/index.html

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