Conscious Reactions Associated with Neuropsychiatric Breakdown in Combat^†

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes† Unless otherwise indicated, the data for this article were collected in 1945, while the author was a member of the Research Branch, Information and Education Division, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U. S. Army. Only a small portion of the data were analyzed at that time; this more thorough reanalysis was made possible by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The author is grateful to M. Brewster Smith and Leland C. DeVinney for aid in planning the original study, to Caroline B. Rose, Ephraim Rosen, and Shirley A. Star for criticism of the manuscript, and to the following psychiatrists of the U. S. Fifth Army in World War II who helped to collect information from their patients: Calvin Dreyer, Albert Glass, Frederick Hanson, L. L. Holloman, M. R. Kaufman, Joseph Slusky, and Raymond Sobel. In making the data available, the Department of the Army assumes no responsibility for the analyses and interpretations made, which are the sole responsibility of the author.