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ABSTRACT The First World War was a global war, beginning on 28 July 1914, until 11 November 1918. Soon after the beginning of the war, there was an “epidemic” of neurological conversion symptoms. Soldiers on both sides started to present in large numbers with neurological symptoms, such as dizziness, tremor, paraplegia, tinnitus, amnesia, weakness, headache and mutism of psychosomatic origin. This condition was known as shell shock, or “war neurosis”. Because medically unexplained symptoms remain a major challenge, and considering the close relationship of symptoms described in shell shock with clinical neurology, we should study their history in order to improve future care.
RESUMO A Primeira Guerra Mundial foi uma guerra global, iniciada em 28 de julho de 1914, até 11 de novembro de 1918. Logo após o início da guerra, exatamente há 100 anos, houve uma “epidemia” de sintomas neurológicos conversivos. Soldados de ambos os lados começaram a apresentar com frequência sintomas neurológicos, tais como: tontura, tremor, paraplegia, zumbido, amnésia, fraqueza, cefaleia e mutismo de origem psicossomática. Esta condição ficou conhecida como shell shock, ou “neurose de guerra”. Como muitos sintomas e doenças inexplicadas continuam sendo um grande desafio, e considerando a estreita relação dos sintomas descritos no shell shock com a neurologia clínica, torna-se importante estudar essa parte da história com o objetivo de entendermos e melhorarmos os cuidados aos pacientes.
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Humans , History, 20th Century , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/history , Combat Disorders/history , World War I , Military Personnel/history , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/psychologyABSTRACT
En el presente artículo nos proponemos vincular la introducción del narcisismo con una serie de problemas distintos a los que habitualmente se destacan. Intentaremos justificar, en primer lugar, que algunos de los problemas económicos desarrollados en 1920 habían sido delineados anteriormente, en torno a las perturbaciones narcisistas provocadas por ciertas colocaciones de la libido en el yo. En segundo lugar, que el narcisismo no sólo habría sido importante en la discusión con Jung sino también en los debates con otras orientaciones psicopatológicas en torno a las neurosis de combate. Por último, que dicho concepto no sólo alude a la constitución del yo sino también a la disolución de la unidad yoica, tal como ocurre en ciertas neurosis "narcisistas" como la demencia precoz, la melancolía o las neurosis de guerra.
In this article we propose to link the introduction of narcissism with some problems that are different from those that usually stand out in the literature. We try to justify, first, that some economic problems developed in 1920 had already been raised before, around narcissistic disturbances caused by certain investiture of libido in the ego. Second, that narcissism would not only have been important in the discussion with Jung but also in discussions with other psychopathological orientations around the combat neurosis. Finally, that this concept not only refers to the constitution of the self but also the dissolution of the ego, as in certain "narcissistic" neuroses as dementia praecox, melancholy or war neuroses.
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Narcissism , Combat Disorders , Neurotic DisordersABSTRACT
En julio del 2014 se recuerdan 100 años del inicio de la Primera Guerra Mundial, conflicto que tuvo un enorme impacto político y social en todo el orbe. Los casos de neurosis de guerra generados por las duras condiciones del frente de batalla suscitaron un gran interés para la psiquiatría y la psicología.
On July 2014 we commemorate 100 years since the start of World War I, a conflict that had enormous political and social impact around the globe. The cases of war neurosis generated by the harsh conditions of the battlefront aroused considerable interest for psychiatry and psychology.