Psychiatry in the British Army in the Second World War
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The author can be criticised on several grounds. First, for what he has left out. Many people would have liked more on what they knew, as for instance (dare I say?) when the efforts of the psychiatrists in forward psychiatry in the Far East?which in some ways were unique?are dismissed in 5 pages. But this is perhaps unfair, when there is so much which has obviously to be omitted, and the author has certainly done his best to preserve as fair a balance as his experience would let him.
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دوره 18 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1959