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2022057243 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781531500122 |
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(hardback) |
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9781531500269 |
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(paperback) |
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9781531500139 |
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(epub) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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MiTN |
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pcc |
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n-us--- |
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| Classification number |
UH629.3 |
| Item number |
.G74 2023 |
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| Classification number |
362.208835500973 |
| Edition number |
23/eng/20230206 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Greene, Rebecca Schwartz, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Breaking point : |
| Remainder of title |
the ironic evolution of psychiatry in World War II / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Rebecca Schwartz Greene. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Ironic evolution of psychiatry in World War II |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Fordham University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2023. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 459 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
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24 cm. |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
World War II : the global, human, and ethical dimension |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Based on the author's doctoral dissertation "The Role of the Psychiatrist in World War II" submitted at Columbia University in 1977. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-439) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Mobilizing for War -- Military Necessity Overrides Psychiatric Skepticism -- Debating Screening's Viability -- Psychiatric Policy Making in the Throes of War -- The Public Reaction -- The Response of Psychiatrists -- The Horrors of War and Beginnings of Change -- From Prediction to Prevention -- Limits to Prevention and Treatment -- Return to Normalcy -- From "War Man" to "Peace Man". |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"This book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II. Breaking Point is 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. 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. 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. 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"-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
United States. |
| Subordinate unit |
Selective Service System (1940-1942) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Military psychiatry |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Soldiers |
| General subdivision |
Mental health |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
War neuroses |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
World War, 1939-1945 |
| General subdivision |
Psychological aspects. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Armed Forces |
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Recruiting, enlistment, etc. |