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Causes of Neurotic Breakdown in British Service Personnel Stationed in the Far East in Peacetime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Maurice Silverman*
Affiliation:
St. Clement's Hospital Observation Unit, E.3, R.A.M.C

Extract

Tredgold (1948) points out that the “importance of studying the mental health of British troops in the Far East … is unlikely to have diminished with the end of the war,” and he emphasizes that “as long as conscription exists, the mental health of the young man doing his military service will be of great importance to the welfare of the community.” For this latter reason the writer has thought it desirable to report some of the experience he gained during 1948. At that time, he was one of the two psychiatrists stationed in Singapore who dealt with the vast majority of the psychiatric casualties that occurred in the Far East.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1950 

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