War and Revolutions

Trauma and Violence from a Socio-Psychological Approach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21882544
AutoresFerenc Eros (autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen11
Número4
Páginas733-763
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHungarian Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2063-8647 • E-ISSN: 2063-9961
EditorialThe Hungarian Historical Review (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.38145/2022.4.733
OpenAlexW4321130786
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas13

World War I, which broke out more than 100 years ago, placed not only a tremendous material and physical burden on the citizens of the participating countries, military and civilians alike, but also a psychological one. The study of the psychological consequences of the war has been pushed somewhat into the background in comparison to the historical and political analyses, though the uses of psychology—and broadly speaking, of the so-called “psy” disciplines, i.e., psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, social psychology, psychotechnics, criminology, pedagogy, etc.—were a crucial part of the history of this war. However, a history of the “psy” disciplines would not be complete without some discussion of the fact that World War I and World War II (and subsequent conflicts) played a fundamental role in the development of these sciences. Arguably, World War led to the emergence—as a kind of “experimental laboratory”—of practices and methods of the application of violence, trauma management, intimidation, terror, manipulation, and propaganda which draw on (and contribute to) insights from these disciplines, not to mention new approaches to the management of subjectivity and the manipulation of sentiments, which proved effective both in times of war and peace

Criminology · Epistemology · Intimidation · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Psychological trauma · Psychotherapist · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · War crime · World War II · Law · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Social Psychology