Shell-Shock at the time of World War I is part of a dark period in the history of the entire world and still remains a problem today with the soldiers returning from the front. lines. Millions of men died fighting over territory that sometimes stretched barely a kilometer for years and witnessed some of the most horrific events of war. The large number of cases of "shell shock" caused by the hellish conditions of trench warfare during the Great War forced military authorities, for the first time, to take the stress of combat seriously (N and M) . It was sometimes a bit neglected and they were even tortured to get out of it or even killed because it was considered cowardly. The novel Regeneration intricately interweaves fact and fiction, deriving fictional scenarios from “factual” circumstances. The scenarios of the texts are “real” to the extent of the lives of the real characters (Harris). In the novel there were two main treatments and they were completely different. Dr. Rivers, for example, used his voice and spoke with his patient's voice, but Dr. Yealland, on the other hand, as when treating Callan, used electroconvulsive therapy. The main point that Barker makes about the treatment given to shell shock patients concerns the conditions that men during this period were placed in for their treatment based on their shell shock condition. Rivers is the main character and the doctor who takes care of the patients, his first patient in the novel and the main character who was a commander protesting the war. I believe that knowing Shell-shock or as we call it today, PTSD, is important to help understand the book better because the book is almost the first discovery of this problem at that time in the world of war and of the rest. .... middle of paper ......ck. NP, 2000. Web. May 9, 2014. http://pb.rcpsych.org/content/24/6/225.full Reprint from N&M Press (original publication 1922). Report of the War Office Commission of Inquiry into “Shell-shock” London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1922. Print.Smith, Tony. “Regeneration Review”. British Medical Journal 312.7039 (May 4, 1996): 1171-1172. Rep. in contemporary literary criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Flight. 146. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. Information Resource Center. Internet. April 15, 2014. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1100036954&v=2.1&u=aacc_ref&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w&asid=0fabd3e9871cb57dddd87cc5164f7edc Stagner, Annessa C. “Reassessing Society's Perception Shell Shock." Reassessing Society's Perception of Shell Shock: A Comparative Study Between Britain and the United States. West Texas State University, nd Web. April 15, 2014 .http://ww1ha.org/shellshock.htm