Le traitement médicamenteux de l’angoisse collective à partir de la Première Guerre mondiale

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to comment on the importance of World War One in the advent of the medicalization of certain emotions such as anguish and, more generally speaking, anxiety. They had already been identified by physicians coming from the fields of different medical specialties. The paper tries to show that these emotions had been well established in the medical and pharmaceutical landscapes well before the advent of antidepressants. The paper tries, in particular, to shift the viewpoint from the soldiers to the civilians.

Keywords

• anguish
• anxiety
• emotion
• medicalization
• drugs
• therapeutics