Physical Treatment of Acute War Neuroses

Lectures on War Neuroses

Lectures on War Neuroses

Very little that is new about War Neuroses emerged during the first eighteen months of the present struggle. Wars change their pattern. Medicine progresses by fits and starts. And no one is yet entitled to say in what way, if at all, concepts of mental illness will be modified by the experiences of the present war years. Dr. Ross, whose sudden death occurred just after this small book went to p...

The Neuroses in War

vidual's personality and background, the precipitating factor is the stress of war and the object of treatment is to return the man fit to continue service. Suggestion, and hypnoanalysis are practical methods which had good results in the last war and with members of the Services collective hypnosis is a time-saving device. The need to reveal to the patient the meaning of his symptoms and their...

Some Neuroses of the War

Treatment of the Neuroses

"When the practice of medicine was gradually emancipating itself from the hands of the priesthood, the process was not thoroughgoing enough tfo include mental therapeutics (then applied in the form of faith-healing, exorcism, and so on), and what part of this is still retained by (the somewhat intermittent efforts of the clergy has become the heritage of quacks to a greater extent than of physi...