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A Follow-Up Study of War Neuroses.
By Norman Q. Brill, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Superintendent and Medical Director, The Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, and Gilbert W. Beebe, Ph.D., Statistician, Follow-Up Agency, Division of Medical Sciences, National Research Council, Washington, D. C. Part of program of studies of Follow-Up Agency of National Research Council Developed by Committee on Veterans' Medical Problems in Cooperation with Veterans' Administration, the Army, and the Navy. Price, not given. Pp. 393, with 282 illustrations. Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., 1956.
D. B. Stone, M.D., Reviewer
AMA Arch Intern Med. 1958;102(4):681.
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Little is known of the natural history of the neuroses, very much less than is known of rheumatic heart disease or of multiple sclerosis. A factual study is long overdue. Psychoneurosis accounted for 27% of Army discharges for disability during World War II, and after the war the Veterans' Administration arranged a large cooperative undertaking to follow some of these patients.
This monograph presents the findings. One thousand four hundred seventy-five patients were studied, representing one in two hundred of those admitted to military hospitals in 1944. One in two hundred is a small sampling ratio, but the reliability of the sample is more directly a function of its absolute size than of the ratio employed in selecting it from its parent source. The preservice, service, and postwar histories were examined. It was hoped to interview 955 of the group in 1949 or 1950, in fact, only 592 men attended
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