Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Mechanical Trauma and Psychical Trauma: Railway Accidents and Hysteria (1866-1889) -- 2 Trauma and Memory: The Janet-Freud Debate, 1889-1895/1913-1914 -- 3 Sexual Cause and Traumatic Testimonies: The Versions of the Neurotica and Its Abandonment (1896-1933) -- 4 The War Neuroses and a New Economic Conception of Trauma (1914-1920) -- 5 On Collective Traumas: The Persistence and Transmission of Past Experiences (1913 and 1939) -- Conclusions -- Index