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Morale in Clinical Medicine

The Forty-Sixth Maudsley Lecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John Richardson
John Richardson*
Affiliation:
St. Thomas' Hospital, London, S.E.i
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Most people feel that they understand the word ‘morale’, though few may have attempted to think precisely about it. Certainly all great leaders throughout time have understood it in varying degrees, often purely instinctively. ‘Morale is at bottom a state of will or purpose’ was the way Hocking (1918) wrote of it in his book Morale and its Enemies, and over two hundred years ago Marshal Saxe in the same vein remarked ‘The secret of victory lies in the heart of human beings'.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 559 , June 1972 , pp. 593 - 599
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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