Book ID: CBB586129991

Therapeutic Fascism: Experiencing the Violence of the Nazi New Order (2017)

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Antic, Ana (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 288 pp.
Language: English

During World War Two, death and violence permeated all aspects of the everyday lives of ordinary people in Eastern Europe. Throughout the region, the realities of mass murder and incarceration meant that people learnt to live with daily public hangings of civilian hostages and stumbled on corpses of their neighbors. Entire populations were drawn into fierce and uncompromising political and ideological conflicts, and many ended up being more than mere victims or observers: they themselves became perpetrators or facilitators of violence, often to protect their own lives, but also to gain various benefits. Yugoslavia in particular saw a gradual culmination of a complex and brutal civil war, which ultimately killed more civilians than those killed by the foreign occupying armies.Therapeutic Fascism tells a story of the tremendous impact of such pervasive and multi-layered political violence, and looks at ordinary citizens' attempts to negotiate these extraordinary wartime political pressures. It examines Yugoslav psychiatric documents as unique windows into this harrowing history, and provides an original perspective on the effects of wartime violence and occupation through the history of psychiatry, mental illness, and personal experience. Using previously unexplored resources, such as patients' case files, state and institutional archives, and the professional medical literature of the time, this volume explores the socio-cultural history of wartime through the eyes of (mainly lower-class) psychiatric patients. Ana Antic examines how the experiences of observing, suffering, and committing political violence affected the understanding of human psychology, pathology, and normality in wartime and post-war Balkans and Europe.

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Review Sarah Marks (2018) Review of "Therapeutic Fascism: Experiencing the Violence of the Nazi New Order". Social History of Medicine (pp. 661-663). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jinee Lokaneeta
Matsubayashi, Kozo
Okumiya, Kiyohito
Maher, Max
Rostagno, Antonio
Imai, Hissei
Concepts
Psychology
Psychiatry
Violence
World War II
Science and politics
Medicine and culture
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Ancient
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
Yugoslavia
Italy
Eastern Europe
United States
Poland
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
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