Effie Karageorgos

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War, protest, psychiatry & trauma. Historian @Uni_Newcastle. Author: Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War (UNSW Press, 2026). Deputy co-director, Centre for Society, Health and Care Research. Editor, Health & History. She/her.

It’s a picture of me with my new book Quiet protest a new history of activism during the Vietnam war
Sand on the right and a curved beach with tents and people dotted here and there. The water is very clear and cliffs are at the back of the image. There are no clouds in the sky.
This text is taken from the Jan-June 2026 UNSW Press catalogue (too much to fit in this box) - https://unsw.press/catalogues/
Josh Lees is speaking with a kuffiyeh around his neck. Behind him a person is holding up a poster that says ‘Stop the genocide, statehood for Palestine now’ with an image of watermelon on it.
Friday 18 July 2025 at 11.30am, Level 2 of the Auchmuty Library, Newcastle Callaghan campus.
It's a poster that says 'Say Aahhh...' with an image of a person sticking out their tongue, and it says 'health,medicine and everyday care in newcastle from 1945 to 2000: this exhibition shows how everyday life interacted with public health provision in Newcastle from the post-war period until the turn of the twenty-first century.
Two black swans swimming on a beautiful serene lake with shrubbery on either side and hills on the opposite side
It’s Mary Zournazi standing on a stage with a screen behind her which says Dogs of Democracy: a documentary about the stray dogs of Athens and the people who take care of them by Mary Zournazi.
It’s the book ‘critical mental health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: social snd historical perspectives’
A white bird on a lake which reflects an orange cloudy sky. It’s sunrise!
Trees and bush and these droopy flowers that I don’t know the same of! It’s all very green!!
It’s a woman with blue hair twerking in front of people with Abbott posters at a polling booth I think
It’s a very very bright orange sunset. Some boats are in the distance on the lake.
A chapter called "introduction: remaking experiences and knowledges through critical mental health research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand' by Natalie Ann Hendry and Effie Karageorgos
It’s me with the captions calling me Doctor Kerry Georges. I’m talking into the camera
It’s a cliff and rocks and the beach looking blue and green. There are people swimming in the distance
It’s loads of baklava! So so delicious and full of almonds and walnuts
It’s a group of activists holding up a sign saying Xmas in Gaza in Pitt St Sydney today.
It’s the end of a typewritten letter that says ‘excuse this rambling letter’
The sea, a cliff, a very orange sunset, rocks in the foreground/ it’s a very pretty picture
It's the poster for the Delinquents, with an image of Kylie Minogue and Charlie Schlatter
It’s a list of typewritten names of activists and someone has spelled Barton ‘Baton’ then added the r in with a little (sorry) next to it
What is Medical History? The construction of PTSD and the Australian veteran Effie Karageorgos I was asked to write this piece defining medical history only days before the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide released its final report. At the time of writing, the report has been public for approximately one month, and has attracted significant media attention on its 3000 pages of findings and 122 recommendations based on the testimony of almost 6000 submissions received over the over 3 years since the Royal Commission was established. The Royal Commission's final report is a deeply political document that contains profound insights into the lives of Australian soldiers and veterans irrevocably changed by their military service. This is a document that cannot be understood without referring to how ideas about military mental health, psychiatry, the soldier and Australian nationalism were formed and have changed in the decades since the first nationwide military commitment in South Africa from 1899 until 1902. Given the significance of the Royal Commission in the lives of so many Australian soldiers and veterans, 1 would like to spend this short piece discussing this aspect of medical, or psychiatric, history through the multi-faceted basis of war trauma diagnosis in the more recent past. The livelihood of soldiers and veterans who are so traumatised by their military service that they require financial or other supports are governed today by the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) category within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, specifically its latest iteration - DSM-5 (2013). The PTSD diagnosis first appeared in the DSM-Ill of 1980 and represents one moment where war history meets medical history and has governed the passage of many veterans from soldier to psychiatric patient. Much has been written about the social and political construction of PTSD. The specific symptoms seen in Vietnam War veterans that resulted from the…
It’s the sea with a beautiful pattern of clouds in the sky and some rocks and cliff in the background.
The words aren’t important but the font is all capitals and it looks very 60s style
It’s a pelican gliding over a nearly smooth lake - the sky is blue and clear.
It’s a picture of Tenno on a RAAF training school document.
It’s handwriting that you can’t recognise on a page that’s written left to write and then diagonally on top of it from the bottom left hand corner to the top right hand corner. It’s so hard to recognise even the simplest of words!