Smascherare il soldato simulatore. Difesa sociale e istanze disciplinari in ambito militare prima della Grande Guerra

Abstract

The paper focuses on the stereotype of the delinquent soldier and his internment in asylums at the beginning of the twentieth century. In particular, it focuses on the figure of simulator. Moreover it deals with the history of mental disorder treatment policies – real or alleged – and control strategies of anormality in soldiers before the Great War. It also tries to relate the forms of discipline represented by asylum, the behavior and the knowledge of doctors of the time with some social practices and cultures spread among the soldiers. This research in particular considers the case of a soldier interned in the asylum of Racconigi, in the province of Cuneo, in 1913.

Keywords

• Racconigi
• psychiatric hospital
• soldiers
• World War I
• faker
• manicomio
• militari
• Prima guerra mondiale
• simulatore