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.
University of Florence, Italy
Book Title
Soldati e neuropsichiatria nell'Italia della Grande Guerra
Book Subtitle
Controllo militare e pratiche assistenziali a confronto (1915 - 1918)
Authors
Marco Romano
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
228
Publication Year
2020
Copyright Information
© 2020 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-079-5
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-078-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-079-5
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-080-1
Series Title
Premio Tesi di Dottorato
Series ISSN
2612-8039
Series E-ISSN
2612-8020