Illness: War

During the First World War, more than 600,000 people in the field and occupation army fell ill with so-called "diseases of the nervous system". In her book, Maria Hermes examines the question of which interpretations of the war are expressed in the medical examination results of mental illnesses. What influence was attributed to the war on the causes of mental illness in people, and what medical views of mental health in war are expressed in this way? What connections were made between the course of the war and mental illness? How did physicians interpret mental health in war? These psychiatric interpretations of World War I are the focus of the book. With their conceptions of illness, psychiatrists not only made an individual classification of the symptoms of illness of individual patients. They positioned themselves in relation to.