{"product_id":"breaking-point-the-ironic-evolution-of-psychiatry-in-world-war-ii-paperback-softback-9781531500269","title":"Breaking Point; The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531500269","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBreaking Point\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRebecca Schwartz Greene (Author), Noah Tsika (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531500269\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 January 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 15 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.74 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER, SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARDS - FIRST BOOK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBreaking Point \u003c\/i\u003eis the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War II. Drawn from unpublished primary documents, oral histories, and the author's personal interviews and correspondence over years with key psychiatric and military policymakers, it begins with Franklin Roosevelt's endorsement of a universal Selective Service psychiatric examination followed by Army and Navy pre- and post-induction examinations. Ultimately, 2.5 million men and women were rejected or discharged from military service on neuropsychiatric grounds. Never before or since has the United States engaged in such a program.\u003cbr\u003e In designing Selective Service Medical Circular No. 1, psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan assumed psychiatrists could predict who might break down or falter in military service or even in civilian life thereafter. While many American and European psychiatrists questioned this belief, and huge numbers of American psychiatric casualties soon raised questions about screening's validity, psychiatric and military leaders persisted in 1942 and 1943 in endorsing ever tougher screening and little else. Soon, families complained of fathers and teens being drafted instead of being identified as psychiatric 4Fs, and Blacks and Native Americans, among others, complained of bias. A frustrated General George S. Patton famously slapped two \"malingering\" neuropsychiatric patients in Sicily (a sentiment shared by Marshall and Eisenhower, though they favored a tamer style). Yet psychiatric rejections, evacuations, and discharges mounted.\u003cbr\u003e While psychiatrist Roy Grinker and a few others treated soldiers close to the front in Tunisia in early 1943, this was the exception. But as demand for manpower soared and psychiatrists finally went to the field and saw that combat itself, not \"predisposition,\" precipitated breakdown, leading military psychiatrists switched their emphasis from screening to prevention and treatment. But this switch was too little too late and slowed by a year-long series of Inspector General investigations even while numbers of psychiatric casualties soared. \u003cbr\u003e Ironically, despite and even partly because of psychiatrists' wartime performance, plus the emotional toll of war, postwar America soon witnessed a dramatic growth in numbers, popularity, and influence of the profession, culminating in the National Mental Health Act (1946). But veterans with \"PTSD,\" not recognized until 1980, were largely neglected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eForeword by Noah Tsika\u003c\/i\u003e   xi\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e  xv\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Before the War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e Mobilizing for War   13\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Military Necessity Overrides Psychiatric Skepticism   34\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Debating Screening's Viability   46\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: During the War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Psychiatric Policy Making in the Throes of War   77\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e The Public Reaction   101\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Response of Psychiatrists   120\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Horrors of War and Beginnings of Change   138\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8. \u003c\/b\u003eFrom Prediction to Prevention   153\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9. \u003c\/b\u003eLimits to Prevention and Treatment   177\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: After the War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10.\u003c\/b\u003e Return to Normalcy   209\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11.\u003c\/b\u003e From \"War Man\" to \"Peace Man\"   232\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion \u003c\/b\u003e  247\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Acronyms and Abbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e   253\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrincipal Physicians and Social Scientists \u003c\/i\u003e  255\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAppendix A: Medical Circular No. 1\u003c\/i\u003e   275\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAppendix B: Circular Letter No. 19\u003c\/i\u003e   277\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAppendix C: Key Investigations of Military Psychiatry \u003c\/i\u003e  279\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  281\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  287\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSelect Works\u003c\/i\u003e   405\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  441\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702468768024,"sku":"9781531500269","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/breaking-point-the-ironic-evolution-of-psychiatry-in-world-war-ii-paperback-softback-9781531500269","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}