A Social‐psychiatric Examination of Young Front‐combatants

Frøshaug, H

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1955.tb01001.x

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“…Langfeldt, who in 1940 succeeded Vogt as professor and head of the Oslo University department, entertained plans for a research project to investigate traitors, especially informers, torturers and young Nazis who had participated as soldiers on the East front (Lavik, 1999). The result of this research project was, however, relatively slight (Frøshaug, 1955;Ødegård, 1947;Rasmussen, 1947). Forensic psychiatrists were also in demand in several legal cases against traitors.…”

Section: Psychiatry After World War IImentioning

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A History of Norwegian Psychiatry

Kringlen

2004

Hist Psychiatry

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In Norway the building of asylums started in 1855 with the establishment of Gaustad State Asylum. Until the 1950s Norwegian psychiatry was mainly a hospital psychiatry, strongly influenced by the pre-war German tradition. After World War II, it was influenced by British social psychiatry and American psychoanalysis. Psychiatric units in general hospitals were established in the 1960s onwards and outpatient clinics from the 1970s. During the last twenty years Norwegian psychiatry has taken a more biological trend with stronger emphasis on diagnostics and drug treatment. The increase in the number of psychiatrists and especially psychologists has been formidable during the last fifty years.

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A History of Norwegian Psychiatry

Kringlen

2004

Hist Psychiatry

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“…Neither did Langfeldt's project become the historical contribution to the psychiatry of collaboration that he had envisaged. The two publications in English from the project (Ødegård 1948 andFrøshaug 1955) are hardly known in the international literature. According to the ISI quotation index, Ødegård's article has been quoted once since it was published, and that was in a historical (rather than psychiatric) work (namely, de Figueiredo 2001).…”

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The Psychiatry of Quislingism: Norwegian Psychiatric Research on the Collaborators of World War II

Giæver

2004

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ArgumentThe paper focuses on a research project launched by Norwegian psychiatrists immediately following World War II. The project sought to investigate the roots of quislingism (collaboration with the Nazis) through psychiatric research on the collaborators. Considered with hindsight, however, the methodology of the project seems puzzlingly shallow. The paper discusses whether this was due to a general lack of adequate methodology in the contemporaneous sciences, or whether the explanation must be sought in the project's social and historical context. Ultimately, I conclude that considerable weight must be placed on the latter explanation, and that the general political ostracism of the collaborators in the postwar years played a major role in the psychiatrists' attitude.

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“…5] has discussed psychiatric problems experienced by the Norwegian population during the war. Froshaug [6] made a social-psychiatric study on 343 young combatants who fought at the front on the German side. He found no cases of psychotic breakdown during their time in prison after the war.…”

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Delusional Psychoses Associated with Unpatriotic Conduct during World War II: A Long-Term Follow-Up Study

Retterstøl¹,

Opjordsmoen²

1991

Psychopathology

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Of a large sample of patients with paranoid psychoses consecutively admitted to the Psychiatric Department, University of Oslo, during a period after World War II, 10 patients (6.3%, 9 women and 1 man) became ill through accusations of unpatriotic conduct during the war. The psychosis seemed precipitated in connection with legal procedures against the patient in 3 cases, and against close relatives in 2 patients. In 2 cases mixed precipitating events were present, while the psychosis in 3 cases had a connection with the woman being intimate with occupation soldiers. Discharge diagnosis according to DSM-III was schizophrenia (n = 2), schizophreniform disorder (n = 4), schizoaffective disorder (n = 1), major depressive disorder (n = 1), mania (n = 1), and atypical psychosis (n = 1). The patients have been followed up twice, with a mean 31 years of observation. Course and outcome varied, mostly according to the diagnosis. Most patients had a favorabe global outcome, although they had a tendency to keep up their social isolation. None of the patients felt they had done anything wrong or regretted their behavior during the war.

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A Social‐psychiatric Examination of Young Front‐combatants

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A History of Norwegian Psychiatry

A History of Norwegian Psychiatry

The Psychiatry of Quislingism: Norwegian Psychiatric Research on the Collaborators of World War II

Delusional Psychoses Associated with Unpatriotic Conduct during World War II: A Long-Term Follow-Up Study

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