DO OUR SOLDIERS FEAR HYPNOSIS ?


by R. A. Montherlant
The real story of "hypnoanalysis," miraculous mind-healer used by Army medicos. It cures almost everything from anxiety to asthma.
THREE months after he had made a split-second escape from the fast-flooding engine room of his torpedoed ship, a 21-year-old merchant seaman reported as a patient to the U. S. Marine Hospital at Ellis Island, New York. He complained of severe and constant headaches, sleeplessness, and told of two distinct occasions when he had "blacked out"
Like many other soldiers and sailors who have undergone the hardship and terror of battle, this seaman was suffering from what the public has learned to call "combat fatigue" or "psychoneurosis" and medical science more accurately terms the "acute traumatic war neuroses."