Psychiatric Disoders ib Combatants

War, as an unpleasant and stressful phenomenon is able to precipitate all psychiatric disorders. For the first time during the US civil war (1861 to1865) in a documentary and formal study, physicians noticed a kind of neurotic disorder among the soldiers active in war and named it Nostalgia. Later on, other names and terms such as Fright Neurosis, and Effort syndrome were used. Therefor, since an eight-year war was imposed on our country and numerous young people took part voluntarily in this war, psychological analysis of soldiers is of great importance. Rendering medical service to these courageous devoted soldiers would be possible, if their psychological problems caused by this imposed war are thoroughly and precisely studied. Thus the purpose of this study is to determine psychological disorders in soldiers of the holy defense.