Psychiatry in the British Army in the Second World War

Robert H. Ahrenfeldt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429819827
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Originally published in 1958, this account of the work of psychiatrists in the British Army during the Second World War is based on the study of all available documents, published and unpublished, as well as on the author's first-hand experience of the clinical and administrative aspects of Army psychiatry. It deals not only with the wartime problems presented by the high incidence of mental illness, and the large numbers of mentally backward and maladjusted men (as they were termed then) in the Service, but also with the methods developed for the selection and efficient use of personnel and officers in the face of acute shortage of man-power; the psychiatric aspects of discipline, morale, training and prolonged service overseas; the treatment and evacuation of psychiatric battle casualties in the forward areas, under difficult and varied conditions; the rehabilitation of disabled ex-servicemen, and the civil resettlement of repatriated prisoners of war.

INDEX

N.B.—Authors listed in the General Bibliography (with cross-references to pages on which quoted) are not included here, except where otherwise mentioned in the text. In respect of individual names listed, 'Dr.' is, in general, used to denote a medical qualification (except in the case of those who are also psychiatric specialists). Psychol. = psychologist; Psychiat. = psychiatrist.

Figures followed by n refer to footnotes (commencing) on the pages specified.

Absence without leave (A.W.O.L.). See Desertion

Adam, Gen. Sir Ronald F., 24, 37-9, 54, 66, 70, 72, 188n. See also Adjutant-General, British Army

Adjutant-General: British Army, 24, 37, 39, 54, 56, 58, 70, 72, 128-9, 131, 188n, 219-20, 223

U.S. Army, 39n

Adjutant-General's Branch, War Office, 14, 37, 39, 196

Advisers in Psychiatry: A.L.F.S.E.A., 22, 210-11

14th Army (S.E.A.C.), 192

B.L.A. (21 Army Group), 21, 118

B.N.A.F., 21, 183, 185

C.M.F., 185, 205, 210, 214

45 and 77 Division, 45

Psychological Warfare Division, S.H.A.E.F., 225n

Aeschylus, 1, 226

Agricultural Companies. See Pioneer Corps

Ahrenfeldt, R. H. (Psychiat.), 106n, 139n, 260

Airborne Forces: morale, Malaya 'mutiny', 220-1

and training, 223-4

selection, 43-4, 46-8, 223-4

Air Force, Royal, (R.A.F.): manpower, priority, 32

transfers to Army, 42

Alexander, Gen. Sir Harold (later Field-Marshal Earl), 219, 272

A.L.F.S.E.A., 22,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• FOREWORD by Dr. J. R. Rees
• Preface
• I Introduction
• II Personnel Selection
• III Officer Selection
• IV Mental Defect And Dullness
• V Disciplinary Problems
• VI Treatment And Disposal Of Psychiatric Cases
• VII Forward Psychiatry
• VIII Problems Of Training And Morale
• IX Rehabilitation And Civil Resettlement Of Repatriated Prisoners Of War
• X Conclusion
• Appendices
• List Of Abbreviations
• General Bibliography
• Supplementary (Technical) Bibliography (published works on British Army psychiatry and related subjects)
• Index