Lectures on War Neuroses
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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...
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