An Address ON THE REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE (excerpts)
Delivered before the Section of Psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine,
on Dec. 4th, 1917,
BY W. H. R. RIVERS, M.D. LOND.,
F.R.C.P. LOND., F.R.S.,
LATE MEDICAL OFFICER, CRAIGLOCKHART WAR HOSPITAL.
MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN,--I do not attempt to deal in this paper with the whole problem of the part taken by repression in the production and maintenance of the war neuroses. Repression is so closely bound up with the pathology and treatment of these states that the full consideration of its role would amount to a complete study of neurosis in relation to the war.
Straightforward Example of Anxiety Neurosis.