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  1. Feb 1, 2000 · The German physician Honigman served in this body, and he was the first to coin the term “war neurosis” [Kriegsneurose] in 1907 for what was previously called “combat hysteria” and “combat neurasthenia”; also, he stressed the similarity between these cases and those reported by Oppenheim after railway accidents. 5

    • Marc-Antoine Crocq, Louis Crocq
    • 2000
  2. Combat neurosis describes any personality disturbance that represents a response to the stress of war. It is closely related to post-traumatic stress disorder , and is often characterized under that term.

  3. The main types of neuroses among combat soldiers are the anxiety, "mixed," and hysteria patterns. Anxiety, the most prevalent type, usually had a slow onset and usually occurred on the battlefield. Not. necessarily an outgrowth of neurotic predisposition, it seemed to be more directly related to the precipitating experiences.

  4. War neurosis is now designated as "combat fatigue" or "combat neurosis." The term implies that a true war neurosis is a direct reaction to war experience and that there are few or no factors of predisposition in its inception. Immediate contributing factors may include fatigue, physical or mental exhaustion, exposure to bad weather, loss of sleep,

    • Louis J. Karnosh
    • 1944
  5. War neuroses is a collective term used to denote the complex of nervous and mental disorders of soldiers in modern wartime societies.

  6. Throughout much of the 20th century, this disorder was called shell shock and combat neurosis because its symptoms were observed in soldiers who had engaged in wartime combat.

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