Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilians who want to protect themselves and their families from possible panic, psychiatrists suggest...
...these none too scientific words Washington's Chief Air-Raid Warden warned the city's wardens against the effects of panic.* Last week in Manhattan, the Emergency Committee of Neuro-Psychiatric Societies, headed by Psychiatrist John A. P. Millet, began a series of lectures to wardens, giving a more realistic picture of the possibilities of air-raid panic...
...Actually panic, which is sudden, unreasonable fear, may make people stampede, faint, sweat, shake, soil their breeches, have palpitation of the heart-but it will not kill a healthy person...
...people who panic most easily are those who have unconscious anxieties of their own, which danger brings to the surface. Such people feel that danger is directed at them individually-that every bomb is aimed at their heads. Best way for such people to protect themselves against panic is to take part in group activities, get some duty to do in time of danger. (Actually the bombing of Britain proved that air raids sometimes make neurotics more courageous than they normally are. Apparent explanation: a common danger externalizes neurotic anxieties, draws the neurotics out of themselves and closer to other...
Chief points in the lectures on panic prevention which Dr. Millet's committee is giving to air-raid wardens: 1) nowhere in World War II have air raids broken civilian morale; 2) much of the tension that the public now feels would clear up in an actual bombing; 3) calm, authoritative leadership will minimize panic...