Military psychiatry during the Great Patriotic War

The features of the organization of psychiatric care during the Great Patriotic War are analyzed. The pre - war period of military psychiatry was studied when there was no experience in providing psychiatric care in combat conditions. The structure of sanitary losses of a psychiatric profile during the war years is studied. It is shown that the most significant part of the victims of this category was «contused». This term, as a clinical and organizational concept, due to the specifics of its attitude to mentally ill military personnel, was widely used only in our country. The role of individual military psychiatrists in the formation of the organization of psychiatric care during the war years is investigated. It is shown that in the absence of consistency and unification of the system for providing this type of medical care for all fronts, it changed dynamically based on current capabilities and needs, as well as acquired experience. The Great Patriotic War had a significant impact on the development of military psychiatry. Her experience was analyzed and generalized in a series of scientific works, most of which became classical.

The Great Patriotic War, sanitary losses of a psychiatric profile, the organization of psychiatric care, the development of military psychiatry