Mental Illness under Occupation. Psychiatric Revisions of ’Normality’ and ’Pathology’, 1941-1945 Cover Image

Mentalne bolesti za vreme okupacije. Psihijatrijske revizije „normalnosti“ i „patologije“ 1941-1945
Mental Illness under Occupation. Psychiatric Revisions of ’Normality’ and ’Pathology’, 1941-1945

Author(s): Ana Antić
Subject(s): History
Published by: Udruženje za društvenu istoriju
Keywords: Mental Illness; Second World War; Psychiatry; Yugoslavia; Schizophrenia; Neuropsihijatrijska Bolnica Laza Lazarević

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the effect of the Second World War on the development of psychiatry in Serbia and Yugoslavia. It analyzes the war-related situations, reactions, conditions and experiences of both victims and perpetrators, noted in case files and psychiatric discussions, which may have led Yugoslav psychiatrists to re-consider their previously solid beliefs in the hereditary and constitutional nature of schizophrenia

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 65-89
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: English