War Surgery and Medicine

Appendix C — Psychiatric and Neurosis Cases, 2 NZEF, Survey at February 1943

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Appendix C
Psychiatric and Neurosis Cases, 2 NZEF, Survey at February 1943

Diagnosis in Sample of 650 Cases
Mania 2 76 = 11.7 per cent
Simple depression 16
Mental dullness and backwardness 47
Paranoia 2
Schizophrenia 6
Psychosis—alcoholic 2
Delusional insanity 1
Epilepsy 3
Anxiety neurosis 416 = 63 per cent
Nervous or physical exhaustion 33
Hysteria 41 = 6.3 per cent
Psychopathic personality 21
Temperamental instability 10
Headaches—persistent 9
Headaches post-concussional 6 15
Neurasthenia 13
Obsessional neurosis 1
Dyspepsia, nervous 21
650

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Title: War Surgery and Medicine

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Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1954, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

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