TY - BOOK AU - Jan Felicjan Terelak PY - 2021 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783631844434 TI - Antarctic Winter-Over Syndrome T2 - Narrative Perspective DO - 10.3726/b18029 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1117846 N2 - The book is a journal that presents narrations and factual accounts of events covering 144 days the author spent during the Third Scientific Expedition of the Polish Academy of Sciences to the Arctowski Station on King George Island (South Shetland Islands). The observations comprise events and behaviors in daily life situations of a team of Polish polar explorers. A valuable source of knowledge for empirical psychology on the behavior of people in extreme conditions, the book describes symptoms that form the winter-over syndrome. The “winter-over syndrome” may be predicted by analogous effects of space isolation, especially in long-term space missions, like an expedition to Mars. Hence, this book is an important scientific and civilizational event in the era of space exploration. KW - Extreme stress, Space psychology, Sensory deprivation, Social isolation, Dynamics of small groups LA - English ER -