Abstract
While the figure of the 'shell-shocked' veteran of the First World War is a customary archetype in histories of that conflict, the soldier suffering from 'war neurosis' in the aftermath of the Second World War is a less familiar character in accounts of that era. Yet as I argue in this article, in the Australian context medical and popular ideas about the 'war neurotic' serviceman" in particular, the notion that he was irreparably psychologically damaged and socially maladjusted" serve as a useful index of broader anxieties about the process of postwar repatriation and notions of home in the immediate postwar years.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 82-101 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | History Australia |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |