Alexandar Jovanovic, M.D.: War Psychotraumas and the Family (Abstract)

Family as an embryo of social organization involves the most vital relationships of an individual with the surrounding world and is one of the key pathogenic and treatment factors of all psychiatric disorders. From that standpoint one should estimate the significance of this research study of family relations as a contribution to the development of conceptual and instrumental framework for better understanding of war psychotraumas and more distinct formulation of relevant therapeutic strategy.

160 subjects have been covered by this research, predominantly Serbs of Orthodox religion, victims of Yugoslav civil war 1991 - l995, of which 7o were torture victims in Croatian and Muslim prison camps. The subjects were examined in the period from October l992 till December l996 at the Institute for Psychiatry of the Clinical Center of Serbia in Belgrade, at the Institute for Orthopedic Prosthetics in Belgrade, and in the Republic of Srpska. Beside family concept a wide range of psychical and social consequences of psychotraumas of a civil, religious and national war on the grounds of Yugoslavia, which has endangered 4 million of people, are covered by the survey.

Distressing testimony of war victims sufferings (camp - prisoners, refugees civilians, veterans) specially those of their life stories and from torture methods and means classification from prisoner - of - war camps is a warning that war victims must not be victimized again by indifference and oblivion; these people will remain to be prisoners of our conscience as long as we keep silent and do nothing for them.

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housing, health-care design, space, center, day care, program, institution, primary care, environment.

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