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Uit het bezit van en gesigneerd door P.J. van den Berg, 1974.
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Contents

Introduction ..... vii

Acknowledgements ..... ix

I. The men

1. The Men: Their Background and Selection ..... 3

II. The Environment of Combat
2. The Combat Units ..... 21
3. Motivation for Combat—Morale ..... 37

III. The Reactions to Combat—Morale
4. Reactions to Combat, Based on Previous Emotional Disorders ..... 53
5. The Neurotic Reactions to Severe Combat Stress ..... 82
6. Psychodynamics ..... 118
7. Treatment and Results ..... 147

IV. The Reactions after Combat
8. The Return Home ..... 181
9. The Syndrome of “Operational Fatigue” (War Neuroses) in Returnees ..... 208
10. Passive-Dependent States ..... 225
11. Psychosomatic States ..... 251
12. Guilt and Depression ..... 278
13. Aggressive and Hostile Reactions ..... 307
14. Psychotic-Like States ..... 327
15. Psychodynamics ..... 345
16. Treatment: Psychotherapy ..... 368
17. Treatment: Narcosynthesis ..... 389
18. Treatment: Adjunctive, and Results ..... 407

V. Civilian Applications
19. Applications to Civilian Psychiatry ..... 427
20. General Social Implications ..... 443

References ..... 461
Index ..... 465
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Tekstfragment (blz. vii)

Introduction
The stress of war tries men as no other test that they have encountered in civilized life. Like a crucial experiment it exposes the underlying physiological and psychological mechanisms of the human being. Cruel, destructive and wasteful though such an experiment may be, exceedingly valuable lessons can be learned from it regarding the methods by which men adapt themselves to all forms of stress, either in war or in peace. In truth, it is a moot question whether, in the peace which will follow the present conflict, the degree of stress on the average individual will be much less than that imposed by the war. Because of the current and future necessity of such large populations throughout the world to face a difficult reality, never in the history of the study of human behavior has it been so important to understand the psychological mechanisms of “normal” individuals in situations of stress.

Under sufficient stress any individual may show failure of adaptation, evidenced by neurotic symptoms. Such symptoms then are pathological only in a comparative sense, when contrasted with the symptoms of those still making successful adaptations. From this point of view, the psychological mechanisms under discussion in this book are those that apply to Everyman in his struggle to master his own environment. In this realm, a hair divides the normal from the neurotic, the adaptive from the nonadaptive. The failures of adaptation of the soldier described herein mirror Everyman’s everyday failures or neurotic compromises with reality. The problem thus resolves itself not into a detection of normality or its lack, but into a study of the
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