Medicine: Tantrum or Neurosis?

Medicine, which puts its problems in purely scientific terms was asked a skeptical question last week. Said the Christian Century, an undenominational church weekly apropos the 1,556,000 men rejected or discharged from the U.S. fighting services on mental grounds:

"Perhaps the psychiatrists, now for the first time having a chance on a large scale . . . are having a field day. . . . It is easy to believe that an undisciplined boy with a spoiled-child complex, an aversion to Army life, a dislike for doing what he is told or a fear of personal injury, gets no help from having...

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