‘War trauma’ and the politics of PTSD during and after the wars of Yugoslav succession
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‘War trauma’ and the politics of PTSD during and after the wars of Yugoslav succession. / Antic, Ana.
In: Central European History, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2022, p. 242-266.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - ‘War trauma’ and the politics of PTSD during and after the wars of Yugoslav succession
AU - Antic, Ana
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article explores how the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder was developed and debated during the wars of Yugoslav succession 1991–1995. It focuses on the rich, wide-ranging, and complex psychiatric and psychotherapeutic discussions of war trauma in the post-Yugoslav space, arguing that arguments about PTSD became a site for expressing political tensions, controversies, and anxieties that could not otherwise be addressed or identified.This research explores how Yugoslav psychiatrists tailored the language of PTSD to their own particular clinical and political needs, infusing it with local assumptions and experiences, often radically changing its original meaning and intentions in the process. Moreover, the article engages with discourses of psychological trauma in Eastern Europe and the socialist world, which remains a neglected topic. It examines how the post-WWII and socialist-era psychiatric discourse and silences were reinterpreted and worked into the psychiatric-political attempts to make sense of the wars of Yugoslav succession.
AB - This article explores how the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder was developed and debated during the wars of Yugoslav succession 1991–1995. It focuses on the rich, wide-ranging, and complex psychiatric and psychotherapeutic discussions of war trauma in the post-Yugoslav space, arguing that arguments about PTSD became a site for expressing political tensions, controversies, and anxieties that could not otherwise be addressed or identified.This research explores how Yugoslav psychiatrists tailored the language of PTSD to their own particular clinical and political needs, infusing it with local assumptions and experiences, often radically changing its original meaning and intentions in the process. Moreover, the article engages with discourses of psychological trauma in Eastern Europe and the socialist world, which remains a neglected topic. It examines how the post-WWII and socialist-era psychiatric discourse and silences were reinterpreted and worked into the psychiatric-political attempts to make sense of the wars of Yugoslav succession.
U2 - 10.1017/S0008938921001382
DO - 10.1017/S0008938921001382
M3 - Journal article
VL - 55
SP - 242
EP - 266
JO - Central European History
JF - Central European History
SN - 0008-9389
IS - 2
ER -
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