Military Psychiatry : A Comparative Perspective

The problem of battle stress has become a major factor in the question of military effectiveness. Current estimates suggest that modern armies are likely to lose between forty and fifty percent of their total strength as a result of psychiatric collapse. The first work of its kind ever published in the field of comparative military psychiatry, this book draws together a cross-cultural analysis of the discipline as practiced by the armies of the United States, Germany, Israel, and the Soviet Union.