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When the war began, admits Dr. Meyer Maskin of New York in the current issue of Psychiatry, "psychiatrists were both pretentious and ingenuous in their claims." The war taught them a new humility. Confesses Maskin: "Psychiatry has little or nothing to offer to surcharging men to fight or to persist indefinitely in the anxiety frustration and monotony of contemporary wars. It has developed no effective field method" for cutting down neuroses...
...combat as a divisional psychiatrist, Dr. Maskin found that the time-consuming techniques of psychiatry had no place amid the rush of war. The psychiatrist had to improvise rules of thumb, apply them quickly and uncritically. He made enormous concessions to the basic military problem of cowardice and took a hardhearted view of most soldiers who complained of "nervousness." In fact he discovered that some neuroses are perhaps desirable. "Resentment can be a militarily useful frame of mind despite its personal painfulness. Frustrate and goad a man sufficiently and he will become indifferent to his own fate and ignore...
...University lineup: Powel, g.; Catinella, r.f.; Wemple, l.f.; Waters, r.h.b.; Frame, c.h.b.; Martin, l.h.b.; Schumacher, o.r.; Broadbent, l.r.; Gummere, c.f.; Derman, i.l.; Maskin...