Reflection on the (un)power of men in the context of post-war everyday life of Croatian war veterans with mental disorders from World War I

Seferović, Jelena (author)

This paper discusses the resocialisation of the Croatian war veterans with mental disorders from World War I. It is based on an analysis of the psychiatric patient files of soldiers who were treated in two Croatian psychiatric hospitals from 1919 to 1924. Their process of social reintegration into the community after return from the battlefield is considered concerning their (in)ability to realise normative expectations regarding the gender role of men. The intention was to research whether this circumstance in part contributed to the development of feelings of powerlessness in the latter stage and consequently caused their antisocial behaviour as a result of which they were socially excluded from their home community.

• Language: English
• Keywords: World War I, war veterans, mental disorder, resocialisation, male gender roles, powerlessness, history of psychiatry
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 25-44
• Numbering: Vol. 69, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-124127
• UDC: 195.97:355.087.2(045)
• DOI: 10.21464/sp35102
• COBISS.SI-ID: 45291011
• Publication date in RUL: 04.01.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Synthesis philosophica
• Shortened title: Synth. philos.
• Publisher: Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo
• ISSN: 1848-2317
• COBISS.SI-ID: 57386594

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• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
• Licensing start date: 04.01.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Croatian
• Title: Promišljanje (ne)moći muškaraca u kontekstu poslijeratne svakodnevice hrvatskih ratnih veterana s psihičkim smetnjama iz Prvog svjetskog rata

Abstract

U radu se raspravlja o resocijalizaciji hrvatskih branitelja s psihičkim smetnjama iz Prvog svjetskog rata. Analiza se temelji na istraživanju psihijatrijskih povijesti bolesti vojnika koji su se liječili u dvije hrvatske psihijatrijske bolnice od 1919. do 1924. godine. Proces njihove socijalne reintegracije u zajednicu nakon povratka s ratišta razmatra se u odnosu na njihovu nemogućnost ispunjavanja normativnih očekivanja vezanih za rodnu uloge muškaraca. Namjera je bila istražiti je li ta okolnost dijelom pridonijela razvoju osjećaja nemoći kod veterana te posljedično uzrokovala njihova asocijalna ponašanja zbog kojih su bili socijalno isključivani iz svoje matične zajednice.

• Keywords: Prvi svjetski rat, ratni veterani s psihičkim smetnjama, resocijalizacija, rodne uloge muškaraca, nemoć, povijest psihijatrije

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 742683
• Name: Post-war trasistions in gendered perspective: the case of the North-Eastern Adricatic Region
• Acronym: EIRENE