Abstract
Psychiatry in the Army did a reasonably creditable job primarily because of the devotion and integrity and ability of a small group of men. It failed in a good many ways and some of these failures were because we in psychiatry failed to select and train new and better men; because we were too inarticulate. Psychiatry has had opened to it great and broad vistas of opportunity and need, many of which were apparent following World War I. But it is saddening to see how few were followed and reached these needs. Perhaps psychiatry still is not ready to rise to the occasion to meet these needs. Perhaps its body of knowledge is not sufficiently great to tackle them. Our best hope lies in the cohesion of our forces, a plan of strategy, a conviction as to the importance of the job, and a self-sacrificing aggressive, militant leadership.
Keywords
ConvictionMilitantPsychologyPsychiatryCohesion (chemistry)CriminologyPolitical scienceLawPolitics
Related Publications
What We Haven't Learned
EARLY SUMMER 1950 marked an unnecessary nadir for the professionals of the US Army. Following World War II, the United States once again disarmed to a degree far below the level...
Commitment — An Overlooked Variable in Marital Adjustment?
conviction, the senior author proposed that personal commitment to one's marriage be explored as a possible factor in marital success. A search of 27 leading texts in marriage a...
Geologic reconnaissance of Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
the War Department (now Department of the Army) requested the Geological Survey to undertake a program of volcano investigations in the Aleutian Islands-Alaska Peninsula
Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998
This paper presents new homogeneous series on top shares of income and wages from 1913 to 1998 in the United States using individual tax returns data. Top income and wages share...
Trade Wars: A Comparative Study of Anglo-Hanse, Franco-Italian, and Hawley-Smoot Conflicts
Three trade wars are examined using variable-sum game theory. The Anglo-Hanse trade wars (1300–1700) are explained as an iterated Prisoners' Dilemma that failed to evolve into c...
Publication Info
- Year
- 1947
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 577-586
- Citations
- 37
- Access
- Closed
External Links
Social Impact
Altmetric
PlumX Metrics
Social media, news, blog, policy document mentions
Citation Metrics
37
OpenAlex
Cite This
William C. Menninger
(1947).
PSYCHIATRIC EXPERIENCE IN THE WAR, 1941-1946.
American Journal of Psychiatry
, 103
(5)
, 577-586.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.5.577
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1176/ajp.103.5.577