This unique volume draws together a variety of essays in the field of contemporary combat psychiatry. Contributions are included from specialists in Britain, Canada, Egypt, France, Israel, Nigeria, the United States, and West Germany. The authors represent a variety of disciplines--including psychiatry, psychology, neurobiology, history, and Soviet studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : combat psychiatry -- an evolving field / Gregory Belenky and Franklin D. Jones -- [The role of group cohesion and personality in maintaining effective performance in combat] -- Battle stress, morale, cohesion, combat effectiveness, heroism, and psychiatric casualities : the Israeli experience / Gregory Belenky, Shabtai Noy, and Zahava Solomon -- Stress and personality as factors in the causation and prognosis of combat reaction / Shabtai Noy -- Combat stress as an opportunity : the case of heroism / Reuven Gal -- An investigation into the value of unit cohesion in peacetime / Frederick J. Manning and Larry H. Ingraham -- Combat psychiatry : the American and Israeli experience / Shabtai Noy -- Stress breakdown in the Wehrmacht : implications for today's army / Robert J. Schneider -- Trauma and personality in the causation of war neuroses / Louis Crocq and Marc-Antoine Crocq -- Psychodynamic considerations in the adaptation to combat / Tom A. Shaw -- Experience of a non-military psychiatrist during the 1966-70 Nigerian Civil War in the war-affected area of 'Biafra' / Ariwodo Kalunta -- Psychiatric casualities after a war-the Nigerian experience after the 1966-70 Nigerian civil war / Olukayode Adelaja -- Egyptian psychiatric casualties in the Arab-Israeli wars / Fuad Mansour -- [The neurobiology of military and combat stress] -- Sleep loss and military performance / Diana R. Haslam and Peter Abraham -- Neuropsychiatric aspects of chemical warfare / Paul Newhouse -- [The broad psychosocial context of performance in combat] -- Combat motivation / Anthony Kellett -- The Soviet attitude toward stress in battle / Chrisopher N. Donnelly -- The future of combat psychiatry / Gregory Belenky.