PSYCHOLOGICAL EMERGENCIES IN WAR TIME

War and psychological health

The study by Hacker Hughes et al (2005) is interesting but I wish to raise a few points. The end of pre-deployment mental health briefing was not the best time for assessment because the soldiers were aware that they would soon be going to war and hence their stress levels must have been high. One month after the return from the war, they must have felt relieved and their stress levels must hav...

Preliminary Study on Psychological Conditions of Returning Prisoners of War, at the Time of Their Arrival in Iran

SUMMARY Earlier studies demonstrate psychological consequences of extraordinary physical and emotional hardships experienced by prisoners of war. In August 1990 first groupsor Iranian prisoners of war returned from their captivities in Iraq. We took the opportunity to study their psychological conditions during their stay in temporary placements. This report highlights the result of our findin...

Some Post-War Psychological Problems

THERE is a great deal of discussion and speculation to-day about post-war conditions, and especially about the future of our own profession. Post-war planning and reconstruction, the re-moulding of our spitfires and hurricanes back into pots and pans, the return of our fighting men from the adventures and excitements of war to the steady pursuits of peace, present us with problems which we will...

Millitary Psychotherapy and Psychological Wounds of War

SUMMARY After a short reference to Iran-Iraq war as a motivating factor for the present study, the issues of battle stress and psychological wounds of war ar discuused. Reactions of the world armies 10 psychological breakdown of soldiers, military psychotherapy, therapy in combat zone and its developmental process through Civil war, Crimean war, first and Second world wars, Korean and Vietnam ...

Death in War Time