War hysteria

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Under war hysteria is generally understood by war -induced anxiety . The term war hysteria comes from trauma research and war psychiatry and military psychology of the First World War , which in its development is described not only as a somatic but also as a social disease and which influenced the mentality of an entire generation. Medically, traumatic neuroses such as shell shock and gas neurosis are referred to as war hysteria . As hysterical symptomsextreme anxiety, delusions, and flight states are called. They are associated with symptoms such as bed-wetting and self-destructive acts. The war hysteria is associated with numerous psychosomatic consequences such as vomiting and diarrhea . The war hysteria was treated by means of suggestion , hypnosis , "electric shocks" , deprivation , weeks of total isolation and deprivation of food , days of continuous baths, and sham operationsand the so-called “treatment close to the front”, in which those affected were brought to “bed-wetting companies” and were supposed to build up a “ compulsion to persevere ” ( Kurt Schneider ) in the front line .

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literature

  • George L. Mosse: Shell-Shock as a Social Disease. In: Journal of Contemporary History. Volume 35, No. 1, 2000.
  • Peter Riedesser: Military Psychiatry and Psychology . In: R. Asanger, G. Wenninger (Hrsg.): Concise dictionary of psychology. Beltz, Weinheim 1980.
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  • Esther Fischer Homberger: The Traumatic Neurosis - From Somatic to Social Suffering. Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1975.
  • Enzo Traverso: Fear, Violence and Death. War and destruction fantasies. In: jour fixe initiative berlin (ed.): Ghost subject. Munster 2007.
  • Franz-J. Lemmens: On German military psychiatry in World War I - was it instrumentalized? In: Military medicine and military pharmacy. Volume 1, 2015, pp. 32-34.

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