This article compares the place of fear in French, German, and Russian medical theories of milita... more This article compares the place of fear in French, German, and Russian medical theories of military “trauma”. It focuses on pathogenesis (the importance military psychiatrists accorded to fear in their descriptions of the origins of mental illness), masculinity (the relationship between fear and concepts of manhood), and spatiality (how soldierly fear correlates with specific spaces, such as the trenches or the home front). One of its conclusions is that the professional identity of the military psychiatric profession and its relationship to the state were critical factors in determining a national military psychiatry’s conception of soldierly fear.
This article compares the place of fear in French, German, and Russian medical theories of milita... more This article compares the place of fear in French, German, and Russian medical theories of military “trauma”. It focuses on pathogenesis (the importance military psychiatrists accorded to fear in their descriptions of the origins of mental illness), masculinity (the relationship between fear and concepts of manhood), and spatiality (how soldierly fear correlates with specific spaces, such as the trenches or the home front). One of its conclusions is that the professional identity of the military psychiatric profession and its relationship to the state were critical factors in determining a national military psychiatry’s conception of soldierly fear.
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psychiatric profession and its relationship to the state were critical factors in determining a national military psychiatry’s conception of soldierly fear.
psychiatric profession and its relationship to the state were critical factors in determining a national military psychiatry’s conception of soldierly fear.