What is "shell shock"

alt. 1 (&lit shell shock English) 2 (context figuratively English) A stunning shock. 3 (context uncountable English) A psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle. 4 A person with the condition. n. 1 (&lit shell shock English) 2 (context figuratively English) A stunning shock. 3 (context uncountable English) A psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle. 4 A person with the condition. vb. To stun or debilitate as by a shock.

n. a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare [syn: battle fatigue, combat fatigue, combat neurosis]

Shell Shock is an original novella written by Simon A. Forward and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Peri. It was released both as a standard edition hardback and a deluxe edition (ISBN 1-903889-17-0) featuring a frontispiece by Bob Covington. Both editions have a foreword by Guy N. Smith.

Shell shock is term coined to describe the reaction of some soldiers in World War I to the trauma of battle. It is reaction to the intensity of the bombardment and fighting that produced a helplessness appearing variously as panic and being scared, or flight, an inability to reason, sleep, walk or talk.

During the War, the concept of shell shock was ill-defined. Cases of 'shell shock' could be interpreted as either a physical or psychological injury, or simply as a lack of moral fibre. While the term shell shock is no longer used in either medical or military discourse, it has entered into popular imagination and memory, and is often identified as the signature injury of the War.

In World War II and thereafter, diagnosis of 'shell shock' was replaced by that of combat stress reaction, a similar but not identical response to the trauma of warfare and bombardment.

"Shell Shock (Part I)" is the sixth episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural drama NCIS, and the 216th episode overall. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on November 13, 2012. The episode is written by Nichole Mirante-Matthews and directed by Leslie Libman, and was seen by 17.05 million viewers.

When a Navy Lieutenant who recently returned home from the Middle East is found dead from a brutal attack, the NCIS team questions the victim’s friend, Marine Captain Joe Wescott. Gibbs realizes the Captain is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, but knows his experience overseas may also provide a key link to the crime.

The plot continues in " Shell Shock (Part II)".

"Shell Shock (Part II)" is the seventh episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural drama NCIS and the 217th episode overall. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on November 20, 2012. The episode is written by Gina Monreal and directed by Tom Wright and was seen by 16.47 million viewers.

Gibbs continues to work with Captain Wescott while he retraces his steps in order to help the NCIS team track down a terrorist. With Thanksgiving on the horizon, Abby’s enthusiasm for the NCIS family dinner is building and Tony’s curiosity is peaking when he learns Ziva is making special plans for the opera.

The episode concludes the plot introduced in " Shell Shock (Part I)".

Shell Shock, also known as 82nd Marines Attack was a 1964 film by B-movie directed and co-written by John Hayes and produced by and starring Beach Dickerson. The film takes place in Italy during World War II, and tells the story of a sergeant with his group of soldiers.

Shell Shock is an opera by Nicholas Lens set to an English-language libretto by Nick Cave. The opera has been published by Mute Song, London.

The protagonists in this opera are besides the terrifying Angels of Death ("We drink breath") mostly the silent victims of war like the mother, the orphans, the unknown soldier, the colonial soldier, the fallen, the missing, the deserter, the survivor etc. The characters mutilate into different characters and help each other in telling their individual story.

With Shell Shock it is the first time that the artist Nick Cave writes the libretto for an opera. The libretto has been described sometimes as highly explicit with in opera highly unusual text phrases like (in Canto of the Mother) 'Fuck God - Fuck the Flag'.'