War neurotics
military nurses and the consequences of a war experience
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https://doi.org/10.52781/cmm.a159Keywords:
History of Nursing, Brazilian Expeditionary Force, Second World War, War Neurosis, Micro-HistoryAbstract
This article aims to analytically discuss the process of professionalization of nursing that allowed women to volunteer for military service in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force during World War II and the psychological consequences that affected them as ex-combatants. Using the historical method and a micro-historical approach, we detail the cases of two nurses, Altamira Pereira Valadares and Zilda Nogueira Rodrigues, who were diagnosed as war neurotics a few years after returning to Brazil. To support the analysis, we used the concept of trajectory. In the final considerations, we were able to perceive the symptomatic evidence of trauma in the way these women dedicated the rest of their lives intensely to the memory of the war.
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