Includes 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.