This essay was written as an introduction to our book on the psychosocial consequences of war: www.psih.org/2000e.pdf , and in Bosnian at www.psih.org/2000b.pdf .
The research in this book attempts to outline the “psychosocial consequences of war”. Moreover, most of the intervention programs mentioned in this research de-scribe themselves as “psychosocial”. In place of an introduction, therefore, this short essay attempts a critical outline of this notion of “psychosocial”.
The problem