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...original band who opened the redistribution center in October of 1943. We were "war-wearies" from all theaters and had had more than our fill of combat, but we were too happy to be home and alive to do any brooding. After the first shock of being treated like gentlemen we settled down to enjoy the marvelous facilities the army provided for our entertainment and enjoyment. We did not avoid civilians but it so happened we had little contact with them. The few that we did meet were more than pleasant and helpful. I am afraid that your reporter does...
...They treat "shell-shock" (a term "loosely applied to almost any neuropsychiatric condition") by coddling rather than discipline, thus teaching moral weaklings to foster their mental quirks...
Against Discipline. Dr. Bowman began his reply by stating that Dr. Link had expressed "more pointedly perhaps than any recent writer, the gross misconception in the public mind regarding psychiatry. ..." The Link discussion, according to Dr. Bowman, contained two plain errors: 1) except for the phrase " 'socalled shell-shock' . . . neither the American Army nor Navy uses the term, and never did"; 2) Dr. Link thinks the use of psychiatry in forward battle areas is novel when "even in the last war the whole basis of psychiatric treatment in the A.E.F. was exactly this." Continued Dr. Bowman...
They Mystify. The Commission made no report on metrazol and electric shock treatment, because they are too new to permit thorough follow-up studies. Both have the advantage that they take less time per treatment than insulin shock (electric shock is the cheapest type) and do not require watching a patient's every breath for hours - insulin shock patients may go into irreversible shock and fatal convulsions. Both metrazol and electric shock have the disadvantage that the "fits" they produce are violent and may cause a patient to hurt himself. As many as half the metrazol patients used...
...certain whether insulin shock brings about more ultimate remissions of dementia praecox (psychiatrists never speak of cures) than would occur anyhow. All that is certain is that it cuts the average hospital stay. And no one yet knows just how any kind of shock therapy works: some think results come from temporarily depriving the brain of oxygen or of sugar, its only food; some suggest that individual attention and the short psychiatric session following each shock are really what do the trick. Otherwise, because of the psychiatrist shortage, a therapeutic psychiatric interview is a rare event in a state mental...