Breaking Point : The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II / Rebecca Schwartz Greene.
Schwartz Greene, Rebecca, author.; Rosemann, Philipp W., contributor.; Tsika, Noah, contributor.
2023
UH629.3 .G74 2023
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Title Breaking Point : The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II / Rebecca Schwartz Greene.
Author Schwartz Greene, Rebecca, author.
ISBN 9781531500146
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531500146
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (368 p.) : 15 black and white illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9781531500146 doi
Call Number UH629.3 .G74 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.3450973
Summary Informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II.Breaking Point is the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War II. Drawn from unpublished primary documents, oral histories, the author's personal interviews and correspondence over years with key psychiatric and military policymakers, it begins with Franklin Roosevelt's endorsement of a universal Selective Service psychiatric examination followed by army and navy pre- and post-induction examinations. Ultimately, 2.5 million men and women were rejected or discharged from military service on neuropsychiatric grounds. Never before or since has the United States engaged in such a program. In designing Selective Service Medical Circular No. 1, psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan assumed psychiatrists could predict who might break down or falter in military service or even in civilian life thereafter. While many American and European psychiatrists questioned this belief, and huge American psychiatric casualties soon raised questions about screening's validity, psychiatric and military leaders persisted in 1942 and 1943 in endorsing ever tougher screening and little else. Soon, families complained of fathers and teens being drafted instead of psychiatric 4Fs and Blacks and Native Americans, among others, complained of bias. A frustrated General George S. Patton famously slapped two "malingering" neuropsychiatric patients in Sicily (a sentiment shared by Marshall and Eisenhower though favoring a tamer style). Yet, psychiatric rejections, evacuations, and discharges mounted. While psychiatrist Roy Grinker and a few others treated soldiers close to the front in Tunisia in early 1943, this was the exception. But as demand for manpower soared and psychiatrists finally went to the field and saw that combat itself, not "predisposition," precipitated breakdown, leading military psychiatrists switched their emphasis from screening to prevention and treatment. But this switch was too little too late and slowed by a year-long series of Inspector General investigations even while psychiatric casualties soared. Ironically, despite and even partly due to psychiatrists' wartime performance, plus the emotional toll of war, post-war America soon witnessed a dramatic growth in numbers, popularity, and influence of the profession, culminating in the National Mental Health Act (1946). But veterans with "PTSD" not recognized until 1980, were largely neglected.
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Added Author Rosemann, Philipp W., contributor.
Tsika, Noah, contributor.
Series World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
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Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I Beauty among the Transcendentals
Chapter 1 Transcendentals and Trinity
Chapter 2 Transcendentals as Trinitarian Appropriation
Chapter 3 Beauty as Transcendental Order
Part II The Trinity's Beauty ad intra
Chapter 4 The Beauty the Trinity Is
Part III The Trinity's Beauty ad extra
Chapter 5 The Beauty Creation Is
Chapter 6 The Beauty the Soul Is
Chapter 7 The Beauty Grace Gives
Conclusion & ad obiectiones
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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