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William Rivers, the psychiatrist at the hospital, treats his patients with compassion and empathy, but is conflicted about his role in the war effort. She also shows the traumatic and permanent impact this had on soldiers like Prior, Sassoon, and Burns. Regeneration, Barker's first entry in the Great War trilogy, is a work of historical fiction focusing on Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. BookForum magazine described them as "full of feeling, violent and sordid, but never exploitative or sensationalistic and rarely sentimental. Her last novel, The Silence of the Girls, began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told.
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Despite Sassoon's decorated military career, his experiences in World War I caused him to publish an anti-war declaration.
Barker depicts Owen as initially unsure of the standard of his own poetry and asks Sassoon to help him revise them. Rivers spends his last day at the clinic saying goodbye to his patients, then travels to London and meets Dr. Soon Sassoon is released for combat duty; Willard is able to overcome his psychosomatic paralysis and walks again; Anderson is given a staff job. Their names are certainly fictitious, but Barker appears to have based their histories on cases recorded by Rivers in a posthumously published book. Yet, Rivers achieves results in a sympathetic manner; he helps his patients to improve and lead a normal life once again.
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Prior are extraordinarily different from each other, both in personality and in relation to their son. Yet they explore, internally and through conversation, what that model means for them and how the war changes how they should experience it.Through the experiences of the characters, Barker portrays the horrors of war and the toll it takes on those who fight in it. Mukherjee describes River's approach to therapy as " autogenesis," or self-understanding through structuring their reaction to traumatic experiences.
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She also notes that the novel's success was likely due to an increased interest in "remembrance" of the Great War, the success of the subsequent novels in the trilogy, and its appeal to a wide variety of readers. In a social climate where illegitimacy was regarded with shame, she told people that the resulting child was her sister, rather than her daughter. In addition to Sassoon's conflict, the opening chapters of the novel describe the suffering of other soldiers in the hospital.Harris also describes Barker, as author, and Rivers, as a period innovator, demonstrating how the use of therapy on soldiers offers an opportunity to shape and rethink this model of masculinity. In the 1990s, although she was often labeled a feminist author, Barker created the Regeneration Trilogy about men and masculinity during wartime, starting with Regeneration in 1991. This is a knowledge she shares with Joanna Bourke, whose Dismembering the Male: men’s bodies, Britain and the Great War was published in 1996, a year after the final part of the Regeneration trilogy.
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