The survivors of traumatic events have long been known to suffer psychological sequelae. Of all possible stressors, combat is one of the most devastating. Wartime exposes its victim to a myriad of stimuli that are far beyond those of civilized life. The impact that remains can affect generations to come. By simultaneously recognizing the continuity of infantile instinctual life and acknowledging the function of the environmental hold will we deepen our understanding of the traumatic neuroses. Fortunately, the transference encompasses both these elements of experience. In appreciating both the archaic and curtain current aspects of this relationship, and the experience contained in their contrast, we have available to us a broad and powerful instrument for the study and treatment of this multifaceted condition. -- From the Introduction.

Introduction : an overview of the psychoanalytic approach to the war neuroses /Harvey J. Schwartz, M.D. -- Brief historical overview of the concept of war neurosis and of associated treatment methods / D. Wilfred Abes, M.D. -- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the Vietnam veteran / Victor J. DeFazio, Ph.D. -- Unconscious guilt : its origin, manifestations, and treatment in the combat veteran / Harvey J. Schwartz, M.D. -- Transference, counter transference, and the Vietnam veteran / Robert B. Shapiro, Ph.D. -- Knights of the traumatic neuroses : implications for theory and treatment / Robert Blitz, Ph.D. and Ramon Greenberg, M.D. -- Brief psychotherapy of the Vietnam combat neuroses / John a McKinnon, M.D. -- The role of psychodynamic group therapy in the treatment of the combat veteran / Erwin Randolph Parson, Ph.D. -- Traumatic war neuroses : some pharmacological and psycho physiologic observations / Richard B. Cornfield, M.D. -- Fear of the dead : the role of social ritual and neutralizing fantasies from combat / Harvey J. Schwartz, M.D. -- Understanding and treatment of combat neurosis : the Israeli experience / Raphael Moses, M.D. and Immanuel Cohen, M.D.