![]() ![]() Yugoslav psychiatrists argued that ‘partisan hysteria’ most frequently affected uneducated and immature partisans, who were given important political responsibilities but experienced severe trauma due to their own inadequacy. Rather, it demonstrated a heightened willingness to fight, and consisted of simulations of wartime battles. ![]() ![]() This uniquely Yugoslav war trauma-‘partisan hysteria’-was diagnosed exclusively in Communist resistance soldiers-partisans-and did not manifest itself in the form of battle exhaustion or anxiety, as was the case in other armies. This article investigates a novel type of war neurosis defined by Yugoslav psychiatrists in the aftermath of the Second World War.
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