Pat+Barker's+Regeneration

//Regeneration// may be kind of an obscure novel, but it really is one of the best books published in the last 25 years or so. It explores the treatment of WWI soldiers undergoing treatment for war neuroses under the care of W.H.R. Rivers a (historical) psychologist and anthropologist working at Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh. Included amongst the terror is a fictionalised meeting between Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Here's some background:

[] (Pat Barker at the British Council's Contemporary Writers site) [] (Pat Barker at Penguin) [] (Good ol' Wikipedia) [] [] (for the cheats) [] (A thesis chapter on homosociality in //Regeneration//) [] (some background on W.H.R. Rivers) [] (Rivers' "Repression of War Experience") [] (Some Freud, for those tenacious scholars)

And, finally, my unit plan: