WAR PSYCHO-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

The psychodynamic treatment of combat neuroses (PTSD) with hypnosis during World War II.

In a large Army hospital during World War II, a full-time program in hypnotherapy for battle trauma cases was developed. Symptoms included severe anxiety, phobias, conversions, hysterias, and dissociations. Many hypnoanalytic techniques were used, especially including abreactions. Good therapeutic results were frequent, as demonstrated by typical cases. There was no evidence that the abreactive...