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The Influence of the War on Mental Disease: A Psychiatric Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

R. E. Hemphill
R. E. Hemphill*
Affiliation:
Bristol Mental Hospital
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It was generally expected, before the actualities of war arrived, that not the least effect of it would be a shattering of the mental health of the civil population.

War on great cities was to be a particular application of what the war lords called the war of nerves. Propaganda, threats and their ultimate fulfilment with bombs and fire were to be the weapons of the future. With this in mind, arrangements were made to receive psychiatric casualties on the assumption that the civil population, untrained and unprofessional, would suffer in at least as large numbers as soldiers in the last war.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 87 , Issue 367 , April 1941 , pp. 170 - 182
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1941 

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