Word: grinker
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Soldiers' frayed battle-nerves are the subject of much concern among service doctors and the people at home. Last week, before the Brief Psychotherapy Council in Chicago, Lieut. Colonel Roy Richard Grinker gave his candid opinion of the psychiatric methods now used to get war-sick soldiers back into battle...
...Colonel Grinker divides military neuroses into four types: 1) those occurring before exposure to military life can have any effect; 2) those caused by the restrictions of military life; 3 ) those caused by foreign service with its homesickness and poor living conditions; 4) true war neuroses caused by actual combat. Men suffering from the first three types, says the Colonel, were not normal in the first place and have a poor chance of being completely cured. But men with true war neuroses are not "weak and useless characters, and deserve active help...