Publication

2017 - University of Michigan Press

Language

English

Word Count

107,000 words, Guess

Page Count

428 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780472118977
  • Open LibraryOL37253762M

Classifications

  • LCCD744.55
  • LCCD810.V42 G4413 2017

Description

This book examines German soldiers' experience of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience after their return home. Part I of the book explores the ways in which veterans' experiences of wartime violence reshaped everyday family life, involving family members in complex ways. Part II offers an extensive analysis of the psychiatric response to this new category of patient, and in particular the reluctance of psychiatrists to recognize the psychic afflictions of former POWs as constituting the grounds for long-term disability. Part III analyzes the cultural representations of veterans' psychic suffering, encompassing the daily press, popular films, novels, and theater.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • War in Their Minds: German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West GermanyUniversity of Michigan Press2017-01-01

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