The collective mind: Trauma and shell-shock in twentieth-century Russia

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Merridale, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; MILITARY MEDICINE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; USSR; WAR;

COMBAT DISORDERS; COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PSYCHIATRY; RUSSIA (PRE-1917); STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; USSR; WAR; WORLD WAR I; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 0006363023     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002200940003500105     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. For an excellent discussion of this, see Derek Summerfield, 'The Social Experience of War and Some Issues for the Humanitarian Field' in Patrick J. Bracken and Celia Petty (eds), Rethinking the Trauma of War (London 1998), 9-37
2. Psikhiatricheskaya gazeta, 1916, no. 5, 76
3. Olonetskaya nedelya, 1914, no. 42, 6
4. V.K. Khoroshko, writing in Psikhiatricheskaya gazeta, 1916, no. 1,3
5. Psikhiatricheskaya gazeta, 1916, no. 19, 378
6. Aleksandr Etkind, Eros nevozmozhnogo: Istoriya psikhoanaliza v Rossii (Sankt-Peterburg 1993), 222
7. N.B. Lebina, 'Tenevye storony zhizni sovetskogo goroda 20-30 gg.', Voprosy istorii, 1994, no. 2, 30-42
8. Information supplied by Prof. V.A. Ababkov, Bekhterev Institute, St Petersburg, 21 October 1997
9. Cited in David Joravsky, Russian Psychology: A Critical History (Oxford 1989), 250
10. For a discussion of these issues, see Mikhail Agursky, 'An Occult Source of Socialist Realism: Gorky and Theories of Thought Transference' in Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal (ed.), The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture (Ithaca 1997), 247-72
11. See Derek Offord, '"Lichnost": Notions of Individual Identity' in Catriona Kelly and David Shepherd (eds), Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolutions, 1881-1940 (Oxford 1998), 13-25
12. Anna Larina, 'Nezabyvaemoe', Znamya, 1988, no. 10, 145
13. This was one of the abiding impressions described by historian, Mikhail Gefter, himself a veteran of this generation. See E. Iu. Zubkova, Obshchestvo i reformy, 1945-1964 (Moscow 1993), 19
14. See L.N. Pushkarev, 'Iz nablyudenii nad tvorchestvom frontovikov', Etnograficheskie obozrenie, 1995, no. 4, 25-35
15. Svetlana Alexiyevich, War's Unwomanly Face (Moscow 1988) 107
16. Brian Edwards and Wendy Sturgess, How to be Happy, BBC Education, 1996, 12
17. The group of veterans I met were especially keen on the approach used by Dr Benjamin Colodzin of the Olympia Center, California. See B. Colodzin, How to Survive Trauma (New York 1992)