TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marco Romano
AB  - Against the backdrop of a critical reflection on the psychiatric concepts of organicism and predisposition to mental illness, the research investigates the relationship between psychiatry and the Great War from a perspective that considers the complexity of the orientations assumed by both the Italian alienists on war pathologies and the health practices implemented towards soldiers. The study highlights the comparison/clash between two totally different approaches forced to coexist during the conflict: on one side, the one from military psychiatry, and on the other the distinctive one from civil asylums. The two perspectives were not always clearly separated, but it is possible to detect a constant tension between the duties towards the war effort and the professional ethics dictated by the neuropsychiatric discipline.
DO  - 10.36253/978-88-5518-079-5
ID  - OAPEN ID: 49400
KW  - history of psychiatry
KW  - shell shock
KW  - military psychiatry
KW  - Great War
KW  - history of mental asylums
L1  - https://www.fupress.com/redir.ashx?RetUrl=14435.pdf
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59672
PB  - Firenze University Press
PY  - 2020
SN  - 9788855180795
TI  - Soldati e neuropsichiatria nell'Italia della Grande Guerra : Controllo militare e pratiche assistenziali a confronto (1915 - 1918)
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