Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 24 No. (1-2), 1992.
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Mental disorders of Croatian soliders in outpatient treatment at east-slavonian battlefield
Pavo Filaković
Jelena Barkić
Nikola Mandić
Abstract
Osijek have been sieged by Serbian Army for more than 8 months and its edge areas have been defence lines of Croatia as well as town areas. Working at the outpatient department for Croatian soldiers the authors have come across many expected and unexpected difficulties. Starting from the doubt about the place of giving psychological and psychiatric help, from the question about concordance with the war psychiatry doctrine they come to the problem of a great number of soldiers who had mental disorders before the war as well as during the war. This problem had determined more loose therapeutic approach to these groups of patients. Analysing the sample od 518 Croatian soldiers in outpatient treatment the authors concluded that a great number of nuclear neurosis decompensation and other »classic« psychiatry diagnosis are results of inadequat psychological and psychiatry selection at the beginning of the war. They recommend repeated selection as soon as possible is as well as intensive preventive activities in protection of mental health in Croatian Army formations.
Keywords
mental disorders; Croatian Army; East-Slavonian battlefield
Hrčak ID:
195343
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Publication date:
1.12.1992.
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