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00:01:21 #1 The oceans of the earth are filled with ships coming home.
00:01:25 #2 In faraway places, men dreamed of this moment.
00:01:28 #3 But for some men, the moment is very different from the dream.
00:01:40 #4 It is human salvage, the final result of all that metal and fire can do to violate mortal flesh.
00:01:53 #5 Somewhere the badges of their pain, the crutches, others show no outward signs.
00:02:03 #6 Yet they too are wounded.
00:02:05 #7 This hospital is one of the many for the care and treatment of the psychonurotic soldier.
00:02:14 #8 These are the casualties of the spirit that troubled in mind,
00:02:39 #9 men who are damaged emotionally.
00:02:42 #10 Born and bred in peace, educated to hate war,
00:02:47 #11 they were overnight plunged into sudden and terrible situations.
00:02:51 #12 Every man has his breaking point,
00:02:54 #13 and these in the fulfillment of their duties as soldiers were forced beyond the limit of human endurance.
00:03:00 #14 Officer and his staff, the Mason General Hospital, I want to extend a hearty welcome to all of you
00:03:12 #15 when you return to the United States. There is no need to be alarmed with the presence of these cameras
00:03:18 #16 as they're making a photographic record of your progress at this hospital from the date of admission
00:03:25 #17 The date of discharge.
00:03:27 #18 Here are men who tremble.
00:03:29 #19 Men who cannot sleep.
00:03:31 #20 Men with pains that are nonetheless real because they are of mental origin.
00:03:36 #21 Men who cannot remember.
00:03:39 #22 Paralyzed men whose paralysis is dictated by the mind.
00:03:43 #23 However different to symptoms, these things they have in common.
00:03:48 #24 Unceasing fear and apprehension.
00:03:51 #25 A sense of impending disaster.
00:03:53 #26 a feeling of hopelessness and utter isolation.
00:03:57 #27 The psychiatrists listen to the stories of the men
00:04:28 #28 who tell them as best they can.
00:04:31 #29 The names and places are different.
00:04:33 #30 The circumstances are different.
00:04:36 #31 But through all the stories runs one thread,
00:04:39 #32 death and the fear of death.
00:04:42 #33 And then after you get wounded what happens?
00:04:47 #34 Is it only worse?
00:04:53 #35 I can never keep getting worse.
00:04:59 #36 So they get worse.
00:05:01 #37 The airplane, they bugged.
00:05:06 #38 I got killed nearly one hour.
00:05:09 #39 You nearly got killed.
00:05:11 #40 Where were you at the time?
00:05:14 #41 Saint-Lord, I believe, somewhere I was.
00:05:16 #42 Oh, my God.
00:05:18 #43 I remember.
00:05:20 #44 What were you doing?
00:05:24 #45 I was in a hole.
00:05:32 #46 I think I'm in the state now.
00:05:34 #47 They told me I was coming back.
00:05:36 #48 But they told me I was going to die.
00:05:39 #49 On the hospital, I wouldn't eat hardly.
00:05:42 #50 I was five, six.
00:05:45 #51 I wouldn't eat hardly until man was going to die, but then he couldn't help me.
00:05:51 #52 So many of them didn't care what I'd die, but then I...
00:05:55 #53 We'll see if you don't die. You won't die.
00:05:58 #54 I split up there with Norman. He was second scout.
00:06:14 #55 I was first scout.
00:06:16 #56 They had it all mixed up up there. They were showing us.
00:06:20 #57 What did that make you nervous?
00:06:22 #58 I should have been first, I'm first scout, my shooting out in front and he went out and I started to go out after him and he got shot.
00:06:29 #59 And he just said, oh, touch him, hit me, crawl to my feet and I started calling for the medic.
00:06:39 #60 I went back to see if he'd get the medic and there wasn't any and I started to go out after him again and they wouldn't let me go.
00:06:46 #61 And he was the last one of the original boys.
00:06:50 #62 It was with me, him and I were the last two left out of the original.
00:06:56 #63 And when you were shelled, how did you feel?
00:06:59 #64 After Norman got hurt, did it kill him?
00:07:05 #65 I was alright when we were moving up or attacked or anything like that.
00:07:09 #66 When we get pinned down, I start thinking about him laying back there.
00:07:13 #67 And then what happens to you when you think about him? How would you feel?
00:07:17 #68 I just didn't care what happened to me.
00:07:20 #69 You mean you didn't want to go back into combat again?
00:07:25 #70 Yes sir, I wanted to go back. I wanted to stay there.
00:07:28 #71 I wanted to keep on for him and all the other guys, you know, John and the striker, the techs, the poppin' and...
00:07:37 #72 And how do you feel right now?
00:07:39 #73 I feel alright.
00:07:40 #74 How you been getting going? You were overseas. Yes, sir. Where?
00:07:52 #75 We were in France and then we went to Germany. Where?
00:07:55 #76 France to Germany.
00:07:56 #77 And what outfit were you in?
00:07:58 #78 I was with headquarters attachment, 50th quarter best battalion mobile.
00:08:02 #79 Mm-hmm.
00:08:04 #80 I see your PFC at present.
00:08:07 #81 You went and you go to the hospital. Sir?
00:08:10 #82 You had to go to the hospital.
00:08:11 #83 Twice, sir.
00:08:12 #84 It says here on your record from overseas that you had headaches and that you had carcinous bells.
00:08:17 #85 Yes, sir.
00:08:18 #86 I believe in your profession as a columnist.
00:08:23 #87 Otherwise, who's it?
00:08:24 #88 Yes, sir.
00:08:25 #89 It was induced when shortly before I received the picture of my sweetheart.
00:08:32 #90 That's all right.
00:08:56 #91 A display of emotion.
00:08:57 #92 I'm not doing this deliberately.
00:09:01 #93 Please believe me.
00:09:02 #94 I do believe you.
00:09:04 #95 A display of emotion is sometimes very helpful.
00:09:09 #96 I hope so, sir.
00:09:10 #97 Sure, it gets it off the chest.
00:09:12 #98 You wouldn't you wouldn't be here you wouldn't have been returned
00:09:16 #99 There's a patient upsetting you. Yes, I say you had received a lot from your photograph
00:09:34 #100 Perfectly honest with you. I'm very much in love with my sweetheart
00:09:38 #101 She has been the one person
00:09:42 #102 That gave me a sense of importance through her cooperation with me
00:09:50 #103 We were able to surmount so many obstacles in big line
00:10:02 #104 I'm here.
00:10:03 #105 The time saw a vision of your brother.
00:10:23 #106 What did you see in the dream?
00:10:33 #107 My brother was home.
00:10:38 #108 Sitting around at the table.
00:10:44 #109 Everybody was happy.
00:10:45 #110 Yeah, it was like a dream.
00:11:00 #111 Yeah.
00:11:01 #112 How do you mean by something happened?
00:11:20 #113 You mean you were hoping that you'd be wounded and sent back?
00:11:22 #114 Is that what you mean?
00:11:23 #115 No.
00:11:24 #116 What do you mean by that?
00:11:25 #117 I meant that I hoped that just, you know, it's so disgusting.
00:11:30 #118 To feel like living.
00:11:34 #119 And then my folks would be a double blow.
00:11:40 #120 Something happened to me.
00:11:41 #121 I mean, I'll be standing, God, sitting on a machine gun, man.
00:11:45 #122 It's watching.
00:11:47 #123 You know, I hear a little noise, and I let go.
00:11:50 #124 Any noise made you excited, you just shoot.
00:11:56 #125 At that time, man.
00:11:57 #126 You're worried about anything now?
00:12:01 #127 Are you mixed up?
00:12:07 #128 What's that, uh, pin on your...
00:12:09 #129 Why do you cover those up?
00:12:15 #130 Is that Purple Heart?
00:12:21 #131 The campaign ribbons?
00:12:23 #132 Well, why do you cover them up?
00:12:25 #133 You know, there must be some reason for you doing that.
00:12:27 #134 I was scraping.
00:12:35 #135 I fell for guard until the end of Friday the 13th.
00:12:48 #136 I was sweating out all day.
00:12:50 #137 Patrol came up in town to patrol me.
00:12:53 #138 They shot me through the wall.
00:12:59 #139 I was laying on a couch right before I happened to have a trouble with Jerry.
00:13:12 #140 I laid down on the floor.
00:13:14 #141 When I got up, I got in the couch, was all torn.
00:13:21 #142 You know what you were almost killed, was that it?
00:13:26 #143 I was going right over my head.
00:13:28 #144 Do you feel conscious? Are you aware of the fact that you are not the same boy that you were when you went over?
00:13:35 #145 Do you feel changed?
00:13:36 #146 We're gone, places.
00:13:59 #147 Over the seas.
00:14:05 #148 When did it come back at all?
00:14:14 #149 I tried every way to keep my mind up before I really could go into the gymnasium.
00:14:25 #150 Getting going out with the fellas and trying to save me.
00:14:34 #151 I got worse and worse.
00:14:36 #152 And after a while I developed a fear of sorrow.
00:14:41 #153 I started developing fears of different sorts.
00:14:45 #154 Did you ever have similar pains before you got here?
00:14:48 #155 Never in my life.
00:14:50 #156 Have you ever been nervous before you got here?
00:14:52 #157 No, sir. Never. I was a son of a man.
00:14:55 #158 There's some noises about here particularly.
00:14:57 #159 I could just...
00:15:04 #160 Oh, I guess I just got sad.
00:15:10 #161 A dreaming of combat, you know.
00:15:14 #162 I just took off because I...
00:15:15 #163 I see too much of my, my body's gone and I figured the next one was from me,
00:15:20 #164 your man can just stand so much up there, see.
00:15:22 #165 Admission note.
00:15:26 #166 Transfer diagnosis.
00:15:27 #167 Anxiety, reaction.
00:15:30 #168 Severe.
00:15:32 #169 Active symptoms.
00:15:34 #170 In remission.
00:15:39 #171 On this their first night back in the States,
00:15:42 #172 each man who was able may make a long distance call without cost.
00:15:46 #173 After months and years of silence,
00:15:52 #174 Familiar voices are heard once again.
00:16:02 #175 Then each man makes for himself a small home,
00:16:05 #176 which will be his for the eight or ten weeks to come.
00:16:08 #177 When the darkness of the ward
00:16:30 #178 emerged the shapes born of darkness,
00:16:33 #179 the terror of things half remembered,
00:16:35 #180 dreams of battle,
00:16:37 #181 the torment of uncertainty and fear.
00:16:40 #182 It begins with an early morning ward inspection.
00:17:06 #183 The medical officer in charge
00:17:08 #184 checks the condition of every man.
00:17:12 #185 Modern psychiatry makes no sharp division
00:17:15 #186 in between the mind and the body.
00:17:18 #187 Physical ills often have psychic causes.
00:17:21 #188 Just as emotional ills may have a physical basis.
00:17:25 #189 Possibilities of organic disturbance in the brain
00:17:27 #190 are investigated by means of the electron
00:17:30 #191 cephalocrat, the Rorschach test.
00:17:36 #192 The things that the patient's imagination sees
00:17:39 #193 in these cards give significant clues
00:17:41 #194 to his personality makeup.
00:17:47 #195 This looks sort of like a drawing of two women
00:17:53 #196 standing on a rock and waving their hands.
00:17:57 #197 This man suffering from a conversion hysteria
00:18:10 #198 requires immediate treatment.
00:18:12 #199 Organically sound, his paralysis is as real
00:18:15 #200 as if it were caused by a spinal lesion,
00:18:18 #201 but it is purely psychological.
00:18:20 #202 Well, just sit him up, and sit yourself over there.
00:18:30 #203 Holds on to talk to you?
00:18:41 #204 Yes.
00:18:42 #205 Now what is the trouble?
00:18:43 #206 I don't know, dear.
00:18:44 #207 What's that?
00:18:45 #208 That's a nose.
00:18:46 #209 Nose?
00:18:47 #210 Yes, it makes me flush like that.
00:18:48 #211 I see.
00:18:49 #212 How long has that been going on?
00:18:50 #213 Since Friday.
00:18:51 #214 Friday night.
00:18:53 #215 Come on, suddenly or gradually?
00:18:54 #216 Suddenly, sir.
00:18:55 #217 How?
00:18:56 #218 When I start in the afternoon with crying spells.
00:18:58 #219 The funny of my shoulder's here.
00:19:02 #220 Back by me.
00:19:03 #221 I started crying.
00:19:04 #222 I wasn't controlling my legs and my arms.
00:19:06 #223 Was there any reason for crying spells?
00:19:08 #224 I don't know, sir.
00:19:09 #225 Hmm?
00:19:10 #226 Anything happen at home to bother you?
00:19:12 #227 Well, my mother's been ill.
00:19:13 #228 She has been ill.
00:19:14 #229 Is that where you're at?
00:19:15 #230 Quite a bit.
00:19:16 #231 Well, now, has this got anything to do with your mother's illness?
00:19:19 #232 Any reason why you should have that kind of reaction?
00:19:21 #233 No, sir, nothing. I know.
00:19:23 #234 Unless my mother's illness might have brought this on.
00:19:25 #235 I try to hold her in my heart.
00:19:26 #236 I see. You've just been holding these things in.
00:19:29 #237 That's right, sir.
00:19:31 #238 Know where you can control this at all?
00:19:32 #239 No, sir.
00:19:34 #240 Well, now we're going to have to help you do that, of course.
00:19:37 #241 Let's take off this jacket here.
00:19:38 #242 The shoe's on. So you can walk in them.
00:19:52 #243 I think we're going to get you walking.
00:19:53 #244 Let's come over here. That's the boy.
00:20:01 #245 That's the boy.
00:20:02 #246 This is all going to go away as I give you this.
00:20:11 #247 The method employed here is effective in certain types of acute cases.
00:20:15 #248 An intravenous injection of sodium amatol induces a state similar to hypnosis.
00:20:20 #249 I don't know what peel that is.
00:20:27 #250 You know what I find with this way?
00:20:28 #251 You look that way. There's nothing for you to watch here,
00:20:30 #252 but you're going to talk to me as we go along.
00:20:33 #253 Yes, sir.
00:20:34 #254 That's all. Now you're not going to feel much of anything else.
00:20:37 #255 You're going to feel a little bit woozy.
00:20:39 #256 The use of this drug serves a two-fold purpose.
00:20:43 #257 Like hypnosis, it is a shortcut to the unconscious mind.
00:20:46 #258 As a surgeon probes for a bullet, the psychiatrist explores the submerged regions of the mind,
00:20:53 #259 attempting to locate and bring to the surface the emotional conflict which is the cause of the patient's distress.
00:20:59 #260 The second purpose of this drug is to remove, through suggestion, those symptoms which impede the patient's recovery.
00:21:06 #261 Now tell me a little bit about what you're thinking of.
00:21:10 #262 That thoughts are coming to your mind now.
00:21:13 #263 Well, now let's go back. Let's go back to Friday.
00:21:17 #264 Yeah, think about that.
00:21:19 #265 Well, that argues with me.
00:21:23 #266 Your mother argues with you?
00:21:24 #267 Yeah.
00:21:26 #268 What does she argue about?
00:21:27 #269 Well, every little thing.
00:21:28 #270 If you sit down in her own chair or something like that.
00:21:32 #271 Doesn't like the stuff you get in the store.
00:21:34 #272 Uh-huh.
00:21:35 #273 It's a constant.
00:21:36 #274 You want to see him? Have you always tried to please her?
00:21:38 #275 Yes.
00:21:39 #276 Always tried to please her.
00:21:41 #277 He used to clean her house when I was a small...
00:21:43 #278 Well, then why do you think she argues like that?
00:21:45 #279 She's not sick.
00:21:47 #280 Well, she doesn't try to control her temper.
00:21:50 #281 I see.
00:21:52 #282 How about your father?
00:21:53 #283 He's a swell guy.
00:21:54 #284 He's a swell fellow.
00:21:55 #285 He gets kind of hot tempered.
00:21:58 #286 Since my mother's been sick, it's been a lot of money.
00:22:01 #287 Mm-hmm.
00:22:02 #288 He lost a lot of weight, a lot of worrying.
00:22:06 #289 My mother, I guess, was wondering if she was aware of where the money is.
00:22:10 #290 But I don't care about that. I think it turns out alright.
00:22:13 #291 Well, now, this jumping, what does that make you think of?
00:22:17 #292 Think about it.
00:22:19 #293 I can't help it. It just jumps.
00:22:21 #294 How about the legs? Do you know anybody who had any trouble with their legs like that?
00:22:26 #295 No, sir.
00:22:27 #296 What does it make you think of? Come on.
00:22:29 #297 several, several years ago.
00:22:31 #298 There was one fellow.
00:22:33 #299 He had something wrong with his right leg.
00:22:35 #300 Waterman did need, but he's walking today.
00:22:37 #301 That hasn't bothered me at all.
00:22:39 #302 Was that anything like your leg?
00:22:41 #303 I don't know. He couldn't walk at all.
00:22:43 #304 He couldn't walk at all?
00:22:44 #305 No.
00:22:45 #306 What do you think of when you can't walk like that?
00:22:47 #307 I wish I could walk.
00:22:48 #308 What do you think of?
00:22:49 #309 What comes to your mind when you find that you can't walk?
00:22:52 #310 Maybe I think I'm on the father's.
00:22:54 #311 You'll be okay sometimes.
00:22:55 #312 I wonder. Hope the war ends soon.
00:22:57 #313 Things like that.
00:22:58 #314 Nothing in particular.
00:23:00 #315 Now the shakes are gone, now, haven't they?
00:23:02 #316 Yeah.
00:23:03 #317 How about your legs?
00:23:04 #318 They're good and strong.
00:23:05 #319 I feel all right.
00:23:06 #320 Move them.
00:23:07 #321 Let's raise them.
00:23:08 #322 Oh, I don't see them raising before, but I can't walk.
00:23:10 #323 How about them now?
00:23:11 #324 They feel all right.
00:23:13 #325 They feel good now, as if you can walk here, don't they?
00:23:15 #326 Toes feel numb.
00:23:16 #327 Toes feel numb, but that's going away, isn't it?
00:23:18 #328 Yeah.
00:23:19 #329 See you.
00:23:20 #330 Raising them fine, isn't it?
00:23:22 #331 Well, you're going to, aren't you?
00:23:27 #332 Yes, sir.
00:23:28 #333 All right.
00:23:29 #334 I love walking. You love walking.
00:23:33 #335 I've always been very fond of walking.
00:23:35 #336 Now you've found yourself unable to walk.
00:23:37 #337 Now you're going to get right up and walk.
00:23:39 #338 I'm going to sign the best. Here you are.
00:24:03 #339 That's the medicine. Now come back to me.
00:24:05 #340 Come back to me.
00:24:07 #341 Open your eyes. That's the way.
00:24:16 #342 You're always going to stay that way.
00:24:18 #343 It's going to stay because that's the same care you're worrying about.
00:24:20 #344 You're going to sleep. When you wake up,
00:24:25 #345 you'll keep on walking perfectly well.
00:24:38 #346 When you wake up, it'll be all right.
00:24:40 #347 All right. Sleep.
00:24:42 #348 The fact that he can walk now does not mean that his neurosis has been cured.
00:24:47 #349 That will require time.
00:24:49 #350 But the way has been opened for the therapy to follow.
00:24:52 #351 Now a new way of living begins.
00:24:58 #352 Very different from the old one whose purpose was killing and trying not to be killed.
00:25:03 #353 Now in an environment of peace and safety, all the violence behind them.
00:25:08 #354 They are building rather than destroying.
00:25:11 #355 Men have their choice of occupational therapy.
00:25:14 #356 therapy. Some find relaxation in mechanical jobs. Certain types of cases obtain relief
00:25:20 #357 in precision work, which answers their inner need for order and certainty. For sons and
00:25:26 #358 daughters and nieces and nephews and neighbors kids, hobby horses are turned out by the
00:25:31 #359 car load. Physical reconditioning is not the only purpose in sports, which also serve
00:25:43 #360 to bring men out of their emotional isolation and back into group activity. One of the
00:25:50 #361 One of the most important procedures is group psychotherapy.
00:25:55 #362 Here under the psychiatrist's guidance,
00:25:58 #363 the patient learns to understand something
00:26:00 #364 of the basic causes of his distress.
00:26:03 #365 As one of a group, he also learns to understand
00:26:06 #366 that his inner conflicts are, with variations,
00:26:09 #367 common to all men.
00:26:11 #368 And I think of it a little bit like this.
00:26:13 #369 We want to get you out of your,
00:26:26 #370 you have to use knowledge as one thing
00:26:30 #371 and something else which has to be added.
00:26:34 #372 That is an experience of safety.
00:26:36 #373 You could say it is almost the core
00:26:39 #374 of all our treatment methods,
00:26:42 #375 development of knowledge of oneself
00:26:46 #376 with the accompanying safety that it brings.
00:26:50 #377 I'd like to see if we can get some illustrations
00:26:52 #378 of how one's personal safety would stem from
00:26:57 #379 childhood safety.
00:26:58 #380 And how the childhood safety self would stem from the parents.
00:27:06 #381 In my illustration as a child, what any experiences that were frightening to me, I never told my parents I kept it to myself.
00:27:18 #382 While I was alone at night, in my room I'd call on God.
00:27:21 #383 But if I had done anything wrong, I was ashamed of it.
00:27:24 #384 I was ashamed to go to my parents and tell them what I had done.
00:27:29 #385 So I kept it to myself.
00:27:31 #386 And I used to, I know I used to be in constant fear
00:27:34 #387 that my parents would find out my feelings.
00:27:37 #388 Well I wonder if there's any of your mother's troubles that you would know about.
00:27:45 #389 I don't know if I gave any of the children any part of her troubles.
00:27:50 #390 That would be the same thing that happened to you.
00:27:54 #391 She didn't tell her troubles, and you didn't tell yours.
00:27:58 #392 You took your troubles to God, and she probably did the same thing.
00:28:02 #393 thing probably didn't even confide in your father. In other words, the kind of method
00:28:09 #394 that you use to get relief from anxiety was really, we'd have to assume, learn and
00:28:15 #395 felt right in your home the same kind of thing.
00:28:18 #396 I think it's all caused by economic conditions. People trying to compete with one another, trying to get a better job, trying to keep up with uprising,
00:28:30 #397 living things like that of course a lot of arguments in the home well and far
00:28:34 #398 right in about the price of the food and as we flex on our children things like that
00:28:39 #399 so I think that was one of the causes of worship not having enough food to eat for
00:28:43 #400 the arguments between the both I mean there was which was the worst though I
00:28:49 #401 just can't just sure they've crossed the arse because I can't remember about the food
00:28:53 #402 there you are you can't even remember both the food or the lack of food I have
00:28:57 #403 I've been lying to my own child that the family had some sense of security.
00:29:07 #404 What happened there was we were told that without my brothers and sisters,
00:29:15 #405 we couldn't just play with them.
00:29:26 #406 As a result, we were kept in a narrow circle to break out of this environment, to be able to...
00:29:44 #407 I say the net results like this, your mother did not feel really so superior.
00:29:50 #408 She felt inferior when she tried to make you take the attitude you were better than the other children
00:29:56 #409 so that now, in certain experiences in the Army, have brought that out more clearly
00:30:01 #410 because you've been thrown in with Tom and Dick and Harry.
00:30:04 #411 I need to get along with them.
00:30:06 #412 It's not necessary to be in the Army.
00:30:08 #413 It's not necessary to be in the war.
00:30:11 #414 These kind of troubles have always gone on in all time through all of a century.
00:30:20 #415 I never spoke until I was seven. Is that right?
00:30:23 #416 Yes, and I studied very bad at 14 and 15.
00:30:26 #417 I couldn't recite in school.
00:30:31 #418 Can you explain how you get started to talk,
00:30:34 #419 how you began to get over things?
00:30:37 #420 Doing the war, the first one, a war gun.
00:30:45 #421 My brother broke it.
00:30:46 #422 But both my guns, that was the first thing I said.
00:31:00 #423 You were angry because someone broke your gun?
00:31:02 #424 Resentment of the personality.
00:31:18 #425 You could almost say it like this.
00:31:20 #426 Underneath, you'd be fine.
00:31:24 #427 I've been here a month now. I've stopped studying.
00:31:34 #428 You've stopped studying completely since you came here? Yes.
00:31:37 #429 That's good.
00:31:38 #430 I don't know whether that's a tribute to the doctors or a tribute to your fundamental health.
00:31:42 #431 It's a little more than a fundamental soul.
00:31:44 #432 No, no tribute to the doctors at all.
00:31:49 #433 Some patients require special therapy.
00:31:51 #434 Hypnosis is often effective in certain types of battle neuroses, such as amnesia.
00:31:57 #435 This man does not even remember his own name.
00:32:00 #436 A shell burst in Okinawa wiped out his memory.
00:32:03 #437 The experience was unendurable to his conscious mind which rejected it and along with it his entire past.
00:32:10 #438 Through hypnotic suggestion the psychiatrist will attempt to revoke them.
00:32:15 #439 Relax completely and put your mind on going to sleep.
00:32:19 #440 Alright now keep your eyes on mine, keep your eyes on mine and keep them fixed on mine.
00:32:25 #441 Keep your mind entirely on falling asleep.
00:32:27 #442 You're going to go into deep sleep as we go in.
00:32:30 #443 You're going to go into deep sleep as we go in. Now, clasp your hands in front of you.
00:32:34 #444 Clasp them tight. Tight, tight, tight, tight.
00:32:37 #445 They're getting tighter and tighter and tighter.
00:32:39 #446 And as they get tighter, you're falling asleep.
00:32:41 #447 As they get tighter, you're falling asleep.
00:32:43 #448 Your eyes are getting heavy, heavy. Now your hands are locked tight.
00:32:46 #449 You're locked tight. They're locked tight.
00:32:49 #450 You can't let go. They're locked tight. You can't let go.
00:32:51 #451 When I snap my fingers, you'll be able to let go.
00:32:53 #452 When I snap my finger, you'll be able to let go.
00:32:55 #453 And then you'll get sleepier. And your eyes are getting heavier.
00:32:58 #454 Now your eyes are getting heavier, heavier, heavier.
00:33:02 #455 You're going into a deep, deep sleep.
00:33:04 #456 Going into a deep, deep sleep.
00:33:06 #457 Deep asleep, far asleep.
00:33:09 #458 Eyes are now closed tight, closed tight.
00:33:12 #459 Going into a deep, deep sleep.
00:33:14 #460 Deeply relaxed, far asleep.
00:33:17 #461 You're far asleep.
00:33:21 #462 Now you're in a deep sleep.
00:33:22 #463 You have no fear, no anxiety.
00:33:24 #464 No fear, no anxiety.
00:33:26 #465 Now you're in a deep, deep sleep.
00:33:29 #466 Now just sit down in the chair behind you.
00:33:31 #467 Sit down in the chair behind you.
00:33:34 #468 Lean back, now fold forward into a deep, deep sleep.
00:33:40 #469 Head now is falling forward,
00:33:41 #470 going further and further and further asleep.
00:33:45 #471 I stroke your left arm to come rigid,
00:33:46 #472 like a bar of steel, and you go further asleep,
00:33:49 #473 and further asleep, further asleep.
00:33:58 #474 Cannot be bent or relaxed.
00:34:01 #475 Touch the top of your head,
00:34:03 #476 I touch the top of your head,
00:34:05 #477 that arm will relax and the other will become rigid.
00:34:07 #478 go further asleep. You'll be in a very deep sleep and your sleep is deeper and deeper.
00:34:16 #479 When I touch this hand, my finger will be hot. When I touch this hand, my finger will be hot.
00:34:24 #480 You'll not be able to bear it. The arm is rigid. As I touch your hand, you will no longer feel
00:34:34 #481 any pain there. It will be normal. Now the arm is relaxed and you're further and further
00:34:40 #482 and further asleep. Now you're deep asleep. We're going back. We're going back now.
00:34:48 #483 Going back to Okinawa. Going back to Okinawa. You can talk. You can talk. You can
00:34:57 #484 remember everything. You can remember everything. You're back on Okinawa.
00:35:03 #485 Tell me what you see.
00:35:05 #486 Tell me.
00:35:07 #487 You're in the battery area.
00:35:10 #488 Tell me what's going on.
00:35:15 #489 You're getting fire missions.
00:35:22 #490 You see everything now. Clearly.
00:35:27 #491 You're getting shells thrown out of you.
00:35:29 #492 Where?
00:35:30 #493 Japs.
00:35:34 #494 Yes.
00:35:36 #495 Keep on.
00:35:37 #496 You remember it all now.
00:35:39 #497 Every bit of it's coming back.
00:35:41 #498 Japs is getting in.
00:35:43 #499 Japs is getting in to get your position.
00:35:45 #500 Go on.
00:35:53 #501 told you to get caught. You see the scene go on. One of the boys got hurt. Yes go on
00:36:13 #502 you remember it now right now but you can tell me you can tell me. Yes you remember
00:36:23 #503 the explosion now they're carrying you who's carrying you where are they taking you.
00:36:37 #504 Cross the field.
00:36:42 #505 Go on.
00:36:43 #506 Very stretch.
00:36:47 #507 Yes?
00:36:48 #508 Just a little.
00:36:54 #509 Just a little stretch.
00:36:56 #510 Yes?
00:36:57 #511 Can you hear them?
00:36:58 #512 Yes.
00:36:59 #513 You see them?
00:37:00 #514 Right.
00:37:03 #515 Where are they taking you now?
00:37:04 #516 Why are you fearful now?
00:37:14 #517 You don't want anymore.
00:37:15 #518 You want to forget it.
00:37:17 #519 But you're going to remember it because it's gone now.
00:37:20 #520 You're back here now.
00:37:24 #521 You're away from Okinawa.
00:37:26 #522 You've forgotten it.
00:37:27 #523 But you remember who you are now. Who are you?
00:37:30 #524 Your name now. Know your mother's name?
00:37:44 #525 That's right. Father? That's fine.
00:37:52 #526 You know who they are. This is going to stay with you.
00:38:00 #527 You're going to remember it all. You're going to remember about Okinawa.
00:38:05 #528 About the shelves and the bombs, but they're gone.
00:38:09 #529 No fear, no anxiety. When I wake you up you'll be comfortable, relaxed,
00:38:18 #530 no pains and no aches. Remember all that I told you.
00:38:23 #531 But you'll remember it. You can wait now.
00:38:27 #532 Under the guidance of the psychiatrist,
00:38:42 #533 he is able to regard his experience
00:38:44 #534 in its true perspective as a thing of the past,
00:38:46 #535 which no longer threatens his safety.
00:38:49 #536 Now he can remember.
00:38:51 #537 Well, what's your trouble?
00:38:56 #538 A bit tough.
00:39:15 #539 I'll help you talk a bit better,
00:39:45 #540 and you can tell me more about it then, right?
00:39:47 #541 Let's lie down and see if we can't help you on that.
00:39:51 #542 This man is not a chronic stutterer.
00:39:53 #543 He suffers from a battle tension
00:39:55 #544 which the drug will attempt to diminish.
00:39:58 #545 Like the man who could not walk and the man who could not remember.
00:40:01 #546 His illness has an emotional basis.
00:40:03 #547 All comfortable now and relaxed.
00:40:09 #548 We're just going to give you some medicine here
00:40:12 #549 and it's going to help number up that tone of yours.
00:40:15 #550 Man, this is going to make you feel a bit groggy.
00:40:18 #551 Now tell me now, how do you feel now?
00:40:36 #552 Make any difference in your feeling?
00:40:37 #553 I am quite set in heaven.
00:40:40 #554 What is it?
00:40:42 #555 Tell me about it.
00:40:43 #556 I can talk.
00:40:46 #557 That's fine. I can talk.
00:40:48 #558 I can talk!
00:40:50 #559 Listen, I can talk!
00:40:55 #560 Take it easy.
00:41:02 #561 Listen, I can talk!
00:41:04 #562 Listen!
00:41:09 #563 I can talk!
00:41:11 #564 That's the way you always do.
00:41:13 #565 You're probably talking with it now.
00:41:15 #566 That's fine.
00:41:17 #567 Let's take it easy now.
00:41:19 #568 Just a little lightly now.
00:41:21 #569 Tell me, you got any idea why you couldn't talk before?
00:41:23 #570 Why you couldn't talk before what's coming to your mind now?
00:41:26 #571 Hmm tell me what's coming to your mind now? What is it in your mind when you couldn't talk? What is it that stopped it?
00:41:38 #572 Something came through there and stopped it. What is it now think quickly think deeply?
00:41:43 #573 Let's go back when was it you lost your speech had your trouble talking go back quickly seems that I
00:41:59 #574 First noticed it on a boat on a phone over
00:42:03 #575 I, it first started with a nest.
00:42:08 #576 Tell us left of me.
00:42:09 #577 Why they left?
00:42:12 #578 I started.
00:42:15 #579 Well, let's start with that S.
00:42:16 #580 Let's go back to that S now.
00:42:18 #581 What were you thinking then?
00:42:20 #582 What was in your mind then?
00:42:22 #583 Right now?
00:42:23 #584 No, then.
00:42:24 #585 On the boat?
00:42:25 #586 Yes, with that S.
00:42:26 #587 When you couldn't say that S right.
00:42:27 #588 Port side.
00:42:38 #589 Mm-hmm.
00:42:39 #590 That is a ship.
00:42:42 #591 What side's that?
00:42:46 #592 That would be the left side.
00:42:47 #593 Left side, that's right.
00:42:48 #594 Yeah, remember.
00:42:49 #595 Of course we were up there that afternoon and we saw the fishes and we had some flying fishes.
00:42:56 #596 I came down and he said, I was telling the fellow underneath me, flying fishes on a porch.
00:43:10 #597 He tried telling them about the flying fishes and he stumbled over the S sound.
00:43:14 #598 And the fellows laughed at him.
00:43:16 #599 Think hard. What does S remind him of?
00:43:22 #600 him out. Now, he fears the sound of death and combat, the sound of a German 88 high explosive
00:43:39 #601 shell coming in. Now it is possible to proceed to the basic method of psychiatric treatment,
00:43:45 #602 discussion and understanding of the underlying causes of his symptom. As the weeks pass, the
00:43:58 #603 therapy begins to show its effect. The shock and stress of war are starting to wear off.
00:44:04 #604 For these men are blessed with the natural regenerative powers of youth. Now they
00:44:09 #605 They are living less in the past and more in the present.
00:44:12 #606 Sometimes they think of the future.
00:44:17 #607 The war years must be put aside and the responsibilities of peace must be considered.
00:44:23 #608 A man might open a filling station or a hardware store, or he can buy a few acres of ram and
00:44:29 #609 raise some chickens.
00:44:31 #610 He might even go back to school.
00:44:42 #611 Visitors' Day.
00:44:45 #612 Now they may resume their contact with the world outside.
00:44:48 #613 These are the people they are coming back to whose lives are bound up with theirs.
00:44:53 #614 Without their understanding, all it has been accomplished in the last few weeks can be torn down.
00:44:58 #615 With it, their return to life can be doubly swift and sure.
00:45:09 #616 Classes in groups, psychotherapy continue.
00:45:12 #617 The men are thinking of themselves in relation to society.
00:45:15 #618 How will they fit into the post-war pattern?
00:45:18 #619 How will the world receive them?
00:45:20 #620 You fellows have had an opportunity to be home with your family since you've returned from overseas.
00:45:28 #621 Have you noticed any change in the various members of your family toward you?
00:45:33 #622 And their reactions toward you?
00:45:35 #623 Well, I found out that after four years of absence, it only took me the second day.
00:45:41 #624 It would be really relaxed.
00:45:43 #625 And I would write chummy to get them with my dad.
00:45:46 #626 I've talked about the old neighborhood and new changes.
00:45:50 #627 I don't know, it's a surprise.
00:45:53 #628 You feel that your family has to be taught how to treat you when you come back?
00:45:58 #629 No, absolutely not.
00:46:00 #630 How do you want to be treated by your family?
00:46:02 #631 The same I was treated before I went into the service.
00:46:05 #632 No, it's different.
00:46:06 #633 You don't want to be treated any differently, no?
00:46:08 #634 I've taught in the one man and I said,
00:46:12 #635 He says, what do you think of us fellas?
00:46:14 #636 I come back with second row of the things at each tape.
00:46:17 #637 And as you can see, there were not crazy bammies.
00:46:21 #638 He says, well, my, before I come out here to see,
00:46:23 #639 he says my first impression was like in Bellevue.
00:46:27 #640 He says, fellas from the last war, they're completely maniac.
00:46:30 #641 So that was my first impression.
00:46:32 #642 I'm wondering if, I mean, the great percentage
00:46:36 #643 of the people are going to be like them when we get out.
00:46:39 #644 And that is a common concern among servicemen who have developed nervous conditions during
00:46:47 #645 their stay in the Army as to what the public is going to think about them.
00:46:52 #646 Undoubtedly there will be people on the outside who won't have any understanding of the condition,
00:47:00 #647 who may think of it as being a rather shameful condition.
00:47:05 #648 That's why we're having an educational program, trying to educate the public into understanding.
00:47:10 #649 Unfortunately, most of you fellows have gone through some very severe stresses in the Army.
00:47:17 #650 Stresses that civilians are rarely subjected to.
00:47:20 #651 In civilian life, you can avoid serious stresses.
00:47:24 #652 If a civilian, the average civilian, were subjected to similar stresses, the undoubtedly
00:47:30 #653 would have developed the same type of nervous condition that most of you fellows developed.
00:47:34 #654 All of us have our so-called breaking point.
00:47:38 #655 In a survey, outside showed that civilians on the whole were more nervous than soldiers.
00:47:45 #656 On Clark Avenue, for instance.
00:47:50 #657 Most of the patients are people who suffer from nervous disorders and if the doctor
00:47:56 #658 won't give them a pill, they'll go out and say, well, he's not a good doctor.
00:48:01 #659 So therefore they're given pills and they take them at home.
00:48:04 #660 I think these things won't be cut off.
00:48:12 #661 Since we've known of these discussions, like the other men have,
00:48:16 #662 I know that we have learned the basis of how we've gotten over some of us through combat
00:48:23 #663 and some of us by not being in combat.
00:48:26 #664 And I think, and I'm sure that we have a better understanding of our conditions.
00:48:30 #665 And I'm pretty grateful of being here at Mason General Hospital like a lot of folks are.
00:48:35 #666 I just don't know how that could walk.
00:48:37 #667 And they made me walk.
00:48:38 #668 I couldn't walk without a ride and I was here 24 hours and I didn't walk.
00:48:41 #669 I feel pretty good if we're getting my limbs back.
00:48:43 #670 But that's not driving that.
00:48:45 #671 It's that, uh, I know that when I got out of here and the other fellas did too,
00:48:51 #672 we're going to try our best to make ourselves as best we can.
00:48:56 #673 And, uh, we feel more confident in the, the, the grass doesn't ever sit your way
00:49:02 #674 and it's going to bother us.
00:49:03 #675 And we want to show people how we can do things our own, out of the outside.
00:49:07 #676 we've been in the hospital for matters of mental health we've been, where we've lost
00:49:11 #677 mom or way, that we can be just as good as anybody else. All I wanted to make you was a
00:49:15 #678 chance to prove how you qualify like they said they were. I hope they keep their farms.
00:49:20 #679 That's all I want. Would you make it a point to tell your employer that you were a psycho neurotic?
00:49:28 #680 Well, if he's an intelligent man, which most well known employers are that own large concerns,
00:49:34 #681 why he's going to react the same as any other normal human being would.
00:49:38 #682 He's going to say it's absolutely possible.
00:49:41 #683 And the man right now looks all right. I'll try him out.
00:49:45 #684 But you may run into employers who are not that broad-minded or intelligent.
00:49:50 #685 Yes, sir. And I'll sell myself to them.
00:49:53 #686 How about you? You have any plans about jobs?
00:49:56 #687 Do you have any fears about getting a job?
00:49:58 #688 Well, what's the problem? I've got my job waiting for you.
00:50:00 #689 You have your job waiting for you.
00:50:03 #690 I think it comes down to this, doesn't it?
00:50:05 #691 That most of you fellows feel that you ought to be honest with your employer,
00:50:10 #692 that you have nothing to hide, nothing to be ashamed of.
00:50:14 #693 Isn't that the general attitude?
00:50:16 #694 Yes, sir. That's what I want to know.
00:50:18 #695 Your time in the service was not entirely wasted.
00:50:22 #696 You have learned a great deal in the service.
00:50:24 #697 For instance, the great many jobs and tasks that you've learned to do in the service
00:50:29 #698 service that you have had absolutely no contact with in the past.
00:50:33 #699 You've also learned to work in groups.
00:50:35 #700 Something that every soldier learns to do very early in his military career.
00:50:40 #701 This definitely will be of much value to you in your future civilian employment.
00:50:53 #702 Split by fast, the first strength of hospital life has become routine.
00:50:58 #703 Sometimes a man learns something new.
00:51:01 #704 The ranger always did want to play a guitar.
00:51:04 #705 It began to seem long.
00:51:47 #706 There's the old healthy sound of belly aching in the air.
00:51:50 #707 Spinach. Spinach again.
00:51:53 #708 And how about a good movie for a change?
00:51:56 #709 How about putting some ice cream in the ice cream soda?
00:52:04 #710 Longer is a man shut up within the lonely recesses of himself.
00:52:08 #711 He is breaking out of his prison into life.
00:52:11 #712 The life that lies ahead,
00:52:13 #713 offering infinite possibilities for happiness and sorrow.
00:52:17 #714 How does a man find happiness?
00:52:20 #715 Is there a secret to discover?
00:52:22 #716 What is the mysterious ingredient that gives joy and meaning to living?
00:52:28 #717 You know in the Bible where it says, man does not live by bread alone?
00:52:32 #718 Children don't grow up well without safety and confidence.
00:52:37 #719 If that wasn't in one's childhood, in growing up,
00:52:43 #720 You could say, now there's something missing during all that time.
00:52:48 #721 And the next question is how to supply it.
00:52:52 #722 And it does need to be supplied.
00:52:55 #723 Not all of the learning and all of the books is half as valuable in getting over nervousness
00:53:03 #724 as to find someone that you esteem, that you can learn to feel safe with,
00:53:09 #725 where you can get a feeling of being accepted, of cherished, where you get a feeling that you were worthwhile
00:53:17 #726 and that you were important to someone.
00:53:20 #727 You could say, the feeding that you didn't get, that's something more than bread, when you were living.
00:53:28 #728 You still need to get it. You still need to be fed with acceptance and to find the safety.
00:53:36 #729 In other words, knowledge alone is not enough.
00:53:48 #730 Eight weeks have passed.
00:54:01 #731 What about these men?
00:54:03 #732 Are they ready for discharge?
00:54:06 #733 How complete is their recovery?
00:54:10 #734 How about the boy in Whitefield?
00:54:19 #735 I just didn't care what happened to me.
00:54:24 #736 How about the kid at Beth?
00:54:31 #737 Colored by Dirk, after 29 hours after he came upon me.
00:54:39 #738 The umpire.
00:55:09 #739 We're tell.
00:55:18 #740 How about this kid?
00:55:25 #741 How about him?
00:55:35 #742 To be discharged?
00:55:54 #743 It's for the doctors to decide at tomorrow's boarding.
00:55:59 #744 At this year's.
00:56:12 #745 This is your last military formation.
00:56:38 #746 Today you're returning to your homes,
00:56:41 #747 your families, and friends.
00:56:43 #748 Many of you have been looking forward
00:56:45 #749 eagerly to this day.
00:56:46 #750 Remember, when you re-enter civilian life,
00:56:49 #751 On your shoulders falls much of the responsibility for the post-war world.
00:56:54 #752 May your lives as civilians be as worthy as your records as soldiers.
00:56:59 #753 Good health, good fortune, and Godspeed.