Wybrane aspekty funkcjonowania w warunkach konfliktu zbrojnego na przykładzie filmów "Sztandar chwały" (Flags of Our Fathers) oraz "Listy z Iwo Jimy" (Letters from Iwo Jima)

Abstract

In the chapter psychological issues connected with the combat stress, returning soldiers to the civil environment, posttraumatic stress disorder, the image of own and different groups and historical events as the elements which create group identity were presented. The movie illustrations of above problems are two Clint Eastwood’s films which show fights between American and Japanese soldiers during The Second World War: “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima”. The theoretical context of analysis is constituted by concepts formulated on the fields of psychology of health, social psychology and political psychology. The text contains also some proposals of exercises which can be done on the basis of the extracts of mentioned films.