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This book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II. Breaking Point is the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War II. Drawn from unpublished primary documents, oral histories, and the author’s personal interviews and correspondence over years with key psychiatric and military policymakers, it begins with Franklin Roosevelt’s endorsement of a universal Selective Service psychiatric examination followed by Army and Navy pre- and post-induction examinations. Ultimately, 2.5 million men and women were rejected or discharged from military service on neuropsychiatric grounds. Never before or since has the United States engaged in such a program. In designing Selective Service Medical Circular No. 1, psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan assumed psychiatrists could predict who might break down or falter in military service or even in civilian life thereafter. While many American and European psychiatrists questioned this belief, and huge numbers of American psychiatric casualties soon raised questions about screening’s validity, psychiatric and military leaders persisted in 1942 and 1943 in endorsing ever tougher screening and little else. Soon, families complained of fathers and teens being drafted instead of being identified as psychiatric 4Fs, and Blacks and Native Americans, among others, complained of bias. A frustrated General George S. Patton famously slapped two “malingering” neuropsychiatric patients in Sicily (a sentiment shared by Marshall and Eisenhower, though they favored a tamer style). Yet psychiatric rejections, evacuations, and discharges mounted. While psychiatrist Roy Grinker and a few others treated soldiers close to the front in Tunisia in early 1943, this was the exception. But as demand for manpower soared and psychiatrists finally went to the field and saw that combat itself, not “predisposition,” precipitated breakdown, leading military psychiatrists switched their emphasis from screening to prevention and treatment. But this switch was too little too late and slowed by a year-long series of Inspector General investigations even while numbers of psychiatric casualties soared. Ironically, despite and even partly because of psychiatrists’ wartime performance, plus the emotional toll of war, postwar America soon witnessed a dramatic growth in numbers, popularity, and influence of the profession, culminating in the National Mental Health Act (1946). But veterans with “PTSD,” not recognized until 1980, were largely neglected.
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT -- OVERSTOCK SALE - Significantly reduced list price This book tells the mostly forgotten story of the accelerating mental health problems that arose among the troops sent to fight in South Vietnam, especially the morale, discipline, and heroin crisis that ultimately characterized the second half of the war. This situation was unprecedented in U.S. military history and dangerous, and reflected the fact that during the war America underwent its most divisive period since the Civil War and, as a result, the war became bitterly controversial. The author is a career Army psychiatrist who led a psychiatric unit in Vietnam. In the years following his return, he was dismayed to discover that the Army had conducted no formal review of this alarming situation, including from the standpoint of military psychiatry, and had lost or destroyed all of the pertinent clinical records. In addition to permitting a study of the psychological wounds and their treatment in Vietnam, these records would have been priceless in the treatment of the legions of veterans who presented serious adjustment problems and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. As a consequence, Dr Camp has been relentless in combing the professional, civilian, and surviving military literature--including unpublished documents--to construct a compelling narrative documenting the successes and failures of Army psychiatry and the Army leadership in Vietnam in responding to these psychiatric and behavioral challenges. The result is a book that is both scholarly and intensely personal, includes vivid case material and anecdotes from colleagues who also served there, and is replete with illustrations and correspondence. It presents the story of Vietnam in a fresh manner--through the psychiatrist's eyes, and sensibilities.
Author : Franklin D. Jones Publisher : Government Printing Office Page : 336 pages File Size : 14,60 MB Release : 2000-04 Category : Family & Relationships ISBN : 9780160591327
Textbook of Military Medicine, Pt. 1, Warfare, Weaponry, and the Casualty. Specialty editors: Franklin D. Jones, et al. Addresses the multiple mental health service provided by the military during peacetime.>"
War confronts a soldier with extreme situations. Deeply shocking events are followed by periods of inactivity and boredom. Not everyone is equally able to cope with such experiences. Armed conflicts produce not only deaths and injuries but mental breakdowns as well. The field of military psychiatry was founded at the beginning of this century for the purpose of patching up psychologically wounded soldiers. This book presents a history of this field. The first part provides a historical survey of the conduct of war, with an emphasis on front-line experiences and the psychological pressures typical of various combat situations. The second part deals with military psychiatry itself: what kinds of problems did the soldiers have, how were they diagnosed by psychiatrists, and which therapies were used? An analysis of the relation between civil and military psychiatry shows that, contrary to a commonly held view, the phenomenon of war has not led to important innovations in the area of therapy.
"This volume is a companion book to "Neuropsychiatry in the World War" (World War I, 1929); "Neuropsychiatry in World War II, Volume I, Zone of the Interior, "(1966); and "Neuropsychiatry in World War II, Volume II, Overseas Theaters, "(1973). The previous volumes of this series focused almost exclusively upon the establishment and operation of neuropsychiatric services under wartime conditions. In contrast, the present volume deals with significant events of Army psychiatry in peace and war since the end of World War II. Following an overview of the beginnings of military psychiatry in Chapter 1, Chapters 2-4 cover the evolution of military psychiatry up to 1950. These chapters focus on Army psychiatry and neurology during the Civil War; Army psychiatry in the post-Civil War era (1866-1914), including the health of the Army during this period and during the Spanish American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion; and Army psychiatry during World Wars I and II. Chapters 5-12 focus on the Korean War in terms of combat phases and psychiatric response. These chapters examine the background to the Korean War; the North Korean Invasion of Jun-Sep 1950; the United Nations (UN) Offensive of Sep-Nov 1950, including psychiatric casualties, shock therapy, and Japanese B encephalitis; the Chinese Communist Offensive of Nov 1950-Jan 1951; the UN Winter Offensive of Jan-Apr 1951; the Spring Offensives of Apr-Jul 1951; truce negotiations and limited offensives by the UN in Jul-Oct 1951; and military psychiatry after the first year of the Korean War. Chapters 13-16 focus on military psychiatry during the interval between the Korean War and the Vietnam War (1953-1961); military psychiatry in Vietnam; military psychiatry in selected international conflicts (1967-1993), such as the Arab-Israeli Wars, Afghan War, Iran-Iraq War, U.S. invasions of Grenada and Panama, Persian Gulf War, and Somalia; and the future of military psychiatry."--Abstract from DTIC web site.