1 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:57,566 The guns are quiet now. 2 00:00:57,601 --> 00:01:00,168 The papers of peace have been signed. 3 00:01:00,203 --> 00:01:04,245 And the oceans of the earth are filled with ships coming home. 4 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:08,071 In faraway places, men dreamed of this moment. 5 00:01:08,106 --> 00:01:11,678 But for some men, the moment is very different from the dream. 6 00:01:18,652 --> 00:01:21,179 Here is human salvage-- 7 00:01:21,214 --> 00:01:24,756 the final result of all that metal and fire can do 8 00:01:24,791 --> 00:01:26,656 to violate mortal flesh. 9 00:01:32,059 --> 00:01:35,741 Some wear the badges of their pain-- 10 00:01:35,776 --> 00:01:39,388 the crutches, the bandages, the splints. 11 00:01:39,423 --> 00:01:44,226 Others show no outward signs, yet they too are wounded. 12 00:01:48,963 --> 00:01:52,030 This hospital is one of the many for the care and treatment 13 00:01:52,065 --> 00:01:53,931 of the psychoneurotic soldier. 14 00:02:14,512 --> 00:02:17,378 These are the casualties of the spirit-- 15 00:02:17,413 --> 00:02:21,686 the troubled in mind; men who are damaged emotionally. 16 00:02:22,421 --> 00:02:26,853 Born and bred in peace, educated to hate war, 17 00:02:26,888 --> 00:02:31,050 they were overnight plunged into sudden and terrible situations. 18 00:02:31,085 --> 00:02:34,017 Every man has his breaking point, 19 00:02:34,052 --> 00:02:37,454 and these, in the fulfillment of their duties as soldiers, 20 00:02:37,489 --> 00:02:40,226 were forced beyond the limit of human endurance. 21 00:02:41,962 --> 00:02:43,062 At ease, men. 22 00:02:44,397 --> 00:02:46,859 On behalf of the commanding officer and his staff 23 00:02:46,894 --> 00:02:48,124 of Mason General Hospital, 24 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,201 I want to extend a hearty welcome to all of you 25 00:02:51,236 --> 00:02:52,667 on your return to the United States. 26 00:02:53,803 --> 00:02:56,634 There's no need to be alarmed at the presence of these cameras, 27 00:02:58,170 --> 00:03:00,567 as they are making a photographic record 28 00:03:00,602 --> 00:03:03,333 of your progress at this hospital 29 00:03:03,368 --> 00:03:05,603 from the date of admission to the date of discharge. 30 00:03:06,739 --> 00:03:10,461 Here are men who tremble, men who cannot sleep, 31 00:03:11,447 --> 00:03:13,813 men with pains that are none the less real 32 00:03:13,848 --> 00:03:15,674 because they are of mental origin. 33 00:03:16,710 --> 00:03:18,781 Men who cannot remember. 34 00:03:18,816 --> 00:03:23,679 Paralyzed men whose paralysis is dictated by the mind. 35 00:03:23,714 --> 00:03:26,016 However different the symptoms, 36 00:03:26,051 --> 00:03:28,286 these things they have in common-- 37 00:03:28,321 --> 00:03:33,083 unceasing fear and apprehension, a sense of impending disaster, 38 00:03:33,118 --> 00:03:37,086 a feeling of hopelessness and utter isolation. 39 00:03:47,531 --> 00:03:48,832 May I have your last name? 40 00:03:48,867 --> 00:03:49,897 Meishner, sir. 41 00:03:50,032 --> 00:03:50,993 How do you spell that? 42 00:03:51,428 --> 00:03:52,899 M-E-I-S-H... 43 00:03:53,134 --> 00:03:54,495 May I have your last name, please? 44 00:03:54,530 --> 00:03:55,430 Wulliver. 45 00:03:55,465 --> 00:03:56,596 How do you spell that? 46 00:04:05,901 --> 00:04:07,622 The psychiatrists listen to the stories 47 00:04:07,657 --> 00:04:10,943 of the men, who tell them as best they can. 48 00:04:11,979 --> 00:04:14,242 The names and places are different. 49 00:04:14,277 --> 00:04:16,472 The circumstances are different. 50 00:04:16,507 --> 00:04:20,049 But through all the stories runs one thread-- 51 00:04:20,084 --> 00:04:22,850 death, and the fear of death. 52 00:04:25,411 --> 00:04:27,352 And then after you got wounded what happened? 53 00:04:31,685 --> 00:04:32,955 Same things, only worse? 54 00:04:36,717 --> 00:04:39,189 Seems like my nerves keep getting worse on me. 55 00:04:39,224 --> 00:04:40,154 They get worse. 56 00:04:40,189 --> 00:04:44,541 These airplanes, they bother me. 57 00:04:44,576 --> 00:04:48,894 I got killed nearly by one of them. 58 00:04:48,929 --> 00:04:49,789 You nearly got killed. 59 00:04:50,324 --> 00:04:52,010 Where were you at the time? 60 00:04:53,046 --> 00:04:54,822 Saint-Lo, I believe. 61 00:04:54,857 --> 00:04:57,293 Somewhere over there. 62 00:04:57,328 --> 00:04:59,695 I don't remember. 63 00:04:59,730 --> 00:05:02,001 What were you doing when the planes came over? 64 00:05:03,436 --> 00:05:04,697 I was in a hole. 65 00:05:08,834 --> 00:05:10,040 Do you know where you are? 66 00:05:10,975 --> 00:05:13,342 I think I'm in the States now. 67 00:05:13,377 --> 00:05:15,673 They told me I was coming back. 68 00:05:15,708 --> 00:05:17,674 But they told me I was going to die. 69 00:05:18,710 --> 00:05:20,976 In the hospital I wouldn't eat, hardly. 70 00:05:22,311 --> 00:05:25,808 But I was sick, and I wouldn't eat hardly. 71 00:05:25,843 --> 00:05:30,366 They told me I was going to die if I didn't eat anyhow. 72 00:05:30,401 --> 00:05:34,888 Told me that they didn't care whether I died or not. 73 00:05:34,923 --> 00:05:36,239 We will see that you don't die. 74 00:05:37,285 --> 00:05:38,751 You won't die. 75 00:05:49,526 --> 00:05:52,498 I lost my last buddy up there, little Norman. 76 00:05:52,533 --> 00:05:55,059 He was second scout, I was first scout. 77 00:05:57,095 --> 00:05:59,161 They had it all mixed up up there. 78 00:05:59,196 --> 00:06:00,497 They were shelling us. 79 00:06:00,532 --> 00:06:02,102 Well, did that make you nervous? 80 00:06:02,137 --> 00:06:03,598 I should... 81 00:06:03,633 --> 00:06:06,365 I'm first scout, and I should have been out in front. 82 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:07,865 And he went out and I started right after him, 83 00:06:07,901 --> 00:06:08,931 and he got shot. 84 00:06:09,667 --> 00:06:13,974 And he... he just said, "Oh, Dutch, I'm hit." 85 00:06:14,009 --> 00:06:18,972 And he crawled to my feet, and I start calling for the medic. 86 00:06:19,007 --> 00:06:21,213 And I went back to see if I could get the medic, 87 00:06:21,247 --> 00:06:22,678 and there wasn't any. 88 00:06:22,713 --> 00:06:24,474 And I started to go out after him again, 89 00:06:24,509 --> 00:06:25,710 and they wouldn't let me go. 90 00:06:26,846 --> 00:06:31,878 And he was the last one of the original boys that was with me. 91 00:06:31,913 --> 00:06:35,633 Him and I were the last two left out of the original. 92 00:06:36,368 --> 00:06:38,853 And when you were shelled, how did you feel? 93 00:06:39,388 --> 00:06:40,889 I don't know. 94 00:06:40,924 --> 00:06:44,990 I just... after Norman got hurt, got killed, 95 00:06:45,025 --> 00:06:48,357 why I was all right when we were moving up or attacking 96 00:06:48,392 --> 00:06:49,723 or anything like that. 97 00:06:49,758 --> 00:06:52,229 But when we get pinned down I start thinking about him 98 00:06:52,264 --> 00:06:53,755 laying back there. 99 00:06:53,790 --> 00:06:56,162 And what happened to you when you'd think about him? 100 00:06:56,197 --> 00:06:57,457 How would you feel? 101 00:06:57,492 --> 00:07:00,329 I just didn't care what happened to me. 102 00:07:00,364 --> 00:07:04,636 You mean you didn't want to go back into combat again? 103 00:07:04,671 --> 00:07:06,697 Yes, sir, I wanted to go back. 104 00:07:06,732 --> 00:07:08,163 I wanted to stay there. 105 00:07:08,198 --> 00:07:11,239 I wanted to keep on for him and all them other guys-- 106 00:07:11,284 --> 00:07:16,602 Norm, John, and Stryker, and Tex, and Pop, and... 107 00:07:16,637 --> 00:07:18,155 And how do you feel right now? 108 00:07:18,641 --> 00:07:19,774 I feel all right. 109 00:07:24,106 --> 00:07:25,226 How have you been getting along? 110 00:07:26,062 --> 00:07:27,913 Well, fairly well, sir. 111 00:07:27,948 --> 00:07:29,479 You were overseas. Yes, sir. 112 00:07:29,514 --> 00:07:30,545 Where? 113 00:07:32,281 --> 00:07:34,352 We were in France, and then we went to Germany. 114 00:07:34,387 --> 00:07:35,277 Where? 115 00:07:35,312 --> 00:07:36,348 France to Germany. 116 00:07:36,783 --> 00:07:38,979 And what outfit were you with? 117 00:07:39,215 --> 00:07:40,755 I was with Headquarters Detachment, 118 00:07:40,770 --> 00:07:42,916 50th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile. 119 00:07:44,552 --> 00:07:45,522 I see you're PFC. 120 00:07:45,757 --> 00:07:46,923 At present, sir. 121 00:07:48,259 --> 00:07:49,470 You had to go in the hospital. 122 00:07:49,495 --> 00:07:50,285 Sir? 123 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:51,321 You had to go in the hospital. 124 00:07:51,356 --> 00:07:52,226 Twice, sir. 125 00:07:52,661 --> 00:07:54,828 It says here on your record from overseas 126 00:07:54,863 --> 00:07:57,764 that you had headaches, and that you had crying spells. 127 00:07:57,799 --> 00:07:58,560 Yes, sir. 128 00:07:59,595 --> 00:08:03,097 I believe in your profession it's called nostalgia. 129 00:08:03,132 --> 00:08:04,427 In other words, homesickness. 130 00:08:04,462 --> 00:08:05,833 Yes, sir. 131 00:08:05,868 --> 00:08:09,420 It was induced when shortly before the war 132 00:08:09,455 --> 00:08:12,972 I received a picture of my sweetheart. 133 00:08:13,007 --> 00:08:13,933 Yes? 134 00:08:24,908 --> 00:08:26,579 I'm sorry, I can't continue. 135 00:08:26,614 --> 00:08:27,427 That's all right. 136 00:08:27,462 --> 00:08:29,152 Griffith, Griffith? 137 00:08:29,187 --> 00:08:30,807 Yes, sir? 138 00:08:30,842 --> 00:08:32,578 Come on and sit down a minute. 139 00:08:33,513 --> 00:08:39,081 Now, a display of emotion is all right. 140 00:08:39,116 --> 00:08:40,816 I'm not doing this deliberately, sir. 141 00:08:40,851 --> 00:08:42,552 Please believe me. 142 00:08:42,587 --> 00:08:43,913 Of course you're not, I do believe you. 143 00:08:43,948 --> 00:08:48,651 A display of emotion is sometimes very helpful. 144 00:08:48,686 --> 00:08:50,257 I hope so, sir. 145 00:08:50,292 --> 00:08:52,093 Sure-- it gets it off your chest. 146 00:08:52,128 --> 00:08:54,389 You wouldn't be here, 147 00:08:54,424 --> 00:08:58,127 you wouldn't have been returned as a patient, 148 00:08:58,162 --> 00:09:00,427 if there wasn't something upsetting you. 149 00:09:00,462 --> 00:09:02,160 Yes, sir. 150 00:09:02,195 --> 00:09:03,824 I'm sorry. 151 00:09:03,859 --> 00:09:05,630 Well, now, you say you had received a letter from your... 152 00:09:05,665 --> 00:09:06,630 Not a letter, sir. 153 00:09:06,665 --> 00:09:07,596 A photograph. 154 00:09:07,631 --> 00:09:08,767 A photograph, yes. 155 00:09:08,802 --> 00:09:11,798 Well, what about that, now? 156 00:09:11,833 --> 00:09:15,135 Well, sir, to be perfectly honest with you, 157 00:09:15,170 --> 00:09:18,402 I'm very much in love with my sweetheart. 158 00:09:18,437 --> 00:09:25,570 She has been the one person that gave me a sense of importance 159 00:09:25,605 --> 00:09:29,690 in that through her cooperation with me, 160 00:09:29,725 --> 00:09:33,775 we were able to surmount so many obstacles. 161 00:09:36,447 --> 00:09:37,743 What happened? 162 00:09:37,778 --> 00:09:39,863 Well, when I was in combat... 163 00:09:39,898 --> 00:09:41,914 Can you speak louder? 164 00:09:41,949 --> 00:09:43,220 I have trouble hearing you. 165 00:09:43,255 --> 00:09:45,186 Yes, sir. 166 00:09:45,221 --> 00:09:51,455 During the time, I got worried that my brother... 167 00:09:51,490 --> 00:09:53,638 he was killed in Guadalcanal. 168 00:09:53,673 --> 00:09:55,787 What was he, a Marine? 169 00:09:55,822 --> 00:09:57,523 Yes. 170 00:09:57,558 --> 00:10:00,144 Now, I notice in this history here 171 00:10:00,179 --> 00:10:02,820 that you saw a vision of your brother. 172 00:10:02,855 --> 00:10:05,462 What... tell me something about that. 173 00:10:05,497 --> 00:10:07,298 What happened? 174 00:10:07,333 --> 00:10:10,334 Oh, I guess it was a dream. 175 00:10:10,370 --> 00:10:13,301 Well, describe the dream. 176 00:10:13,336 --> 00:10:14,902 What did you see in the dream? 177 00:10:14,937 --> 00:10:19,839 I dreamt that I was home, my brother was home, 178 00:10:19,874 --> 00:10:21,300 and my other brother was home. 179 00:10:21,335 --> 00:10:22,305 We all were home. 180 00:10:22,340 --> 00:10:23,336 All of you were home. 181 00:10:23,371 --> 00:10:24,767 Sitting around the table. 182 00:10:24,802 --> 00:10:29,505 Everybody was happy, and we were laughing, you know, talking. 183 00:10:30,775 --> 00:10:33,862 Just admiring each other. 184 00:10:33,897 --> 00:10:36,914 And then it ended there. 185 00:10:36,949 --> 00:10:39,049 And you could see these images clearly. 186 00:10:39,084 --> 00:10:41,150 It was like in a dream, see? 187 00:10:41,185 --> 00:10:42,616 Yeah. 188 00:10:42,651 --> 00:10:45,853 What about this Mindanao thing you were telling me about? 189 00:10:45,888 --> 00:10:49,255 Well, in Mindanao, after I got the news, 190 00:10:49,290 --> 00:10:51,238 I admit I was scared. 191 00:10:51,273 --> 00:10:53,152 You were scared. 192 00:10:53,187 --> 00:10:54,483 I don't know. 193 00:10:54,518 --> 00:10:57,255 Sometimes I'd hope something would happen, 194 00:10:57,290 --> 00:10:59,490 then again I'd say, "Well, something did happen." 195 00:10:59,525 --> 00:11:00,956 What do you mean by "something happen"? 196 00:11:00,991 --> 00:11:03,022 You mean you were hoping that you'd be wounded and sent back? 197 00:11:03,057 --> 00:11:04,540 Is that what you mean? No. 198 00:11:04,575 --> 00:11:05,989 What do you mean by that? 199 00:11:06,024 --> 00:11:08,460 I meant that I hoped that just... 200 00:11:08,495 --> 00:11:11,427 you know, I was so disgusted and tired of everything, 201 00:11:11,462 --> 00:11:14,134 I just didn't feel like living. 202 00:11:14,169 --> 00:11:17,885 And then I changed my mind, and I'd think back to my folks, 203 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:21,602 and it would be a double blow if something happened to me. 204 00:11:21,637 --> 00:11:23,038 And I'd be standing guard, 205 00:11:23,073 --> 00:11:26,400 sitting a machine gun nest, watching. 206 00:11:26,435 --> 00:11:31,037 And then I'd hear a little noise, and I'd let go, shoot. 207 00:11:31,072 --> 00:11:32,403 Wasn't nothing, probably. 208 00:11:32,438 --> 00:11:33,804 It was an animal or something. 209 00:11:33,839 --> 00:11:35,480 Any noise made you upset, and you'd just shoot. 210 00:11:35,515 --> 00:11:37,580 At that time, yes. 211 00:11:39,511 --> 00:11:40,942 Do you feel worried about anything now? 212 00:11:40,977 --> 00:11:42,848 I don't know. 213 00:11:42,883 --> 00:11:45,135 Are you mixed up? 214 00:11:45,170 --> 00:11:47,351 Kind of. 215 00:11:47,386 --> 00:11:49,687 What's that pin on your shirt there? 216 00:11:49,722 --> 00:11:53,254 My heart. 217 00:11:53,289 --> 00:11:55,606 Why do you cover those up? 218 00:11:55,641 --> 00:11:57,921 Aren't you proud of them? 219 00:11:57,956 --> 00:11:59,257 Yes, sir. 220 00:11:59,292 --> 00:12:02,023 You got a Purple Heart and campaign ribbons. 221 00:12:02,058 --> 00:12:03,419 Yes, sir. 222 00:12:03,454 --> 00:12:04,960 Well, why are you covering them up? 223 00:12:04,995 --> 00:12:07,096 I mean, there must be some reason for you doing that. 224 00:12:09,733 --> 00:12:11,464 Well, what happened over there? 225 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,496 We got in a scrape, and... 226 00:12:16,531 --> 00:12:26,372 I was in the house there, just got off of guard duty. 227 00:12:26,407 --> 00:12:30,569 And it was Friday the 13th, and I'm sweating it out all day. 228 00:12:30,604 --> 00:12:32,575 Patrol came up from town, patrol, 229 00:12:32,610 --> 00:12:40,014 and they shot a panzerfux though the wall. 230 00:12:40,049 --> 00:12:41,940 Well... 231 00:12:41,975 --> 00:12:45,312 And what? 232 00:12:45,347 --> 00:12:49,444 I was laying on the couch, 233 00:12:49,479 --> 00:12:52,151 and right before it happened I felt a little jittery, 234 00:12:52,186 --> 00:12:55,187 so I lay down on the floor. 235 00:12:55,222 --> 00:12:58,874 When I got up again, the couch was all torn. 236 00:12:58,909 --> 00:13:02,526 In other words, you were almost killed. 237 00:13:02,561 --> 00:13:03,943 Is that it? 238 00:13:03,978 --> 00:13:05,292 Right. 239 00:13:05,327 --> 00:13:08,529 It must have gone right over my head. 240 00:13:08,564 --> 00:13:10,155 Do you feel conscious... 241 00:13:10,190 --> 00:13:11,426 that is, are you aware of the fact 242 00:13:11,461 --> 00:13:13,732 that you are not the same boy that you were 243 00:13:13,767 --> 00:13:15,050 when you went over? 244 00:13:15,085 --> 00:13:16,939 Do you feel changed? 245 00:13:16,974 --> 00:13:18,759 Yes, sir. 246 00:13:18,794 --> 00:13:20,660 In what way? 247 00:13:20,695 --> 00:13:26,704 I'm more jumpy. 248 00:13:26,739 --> 00:13:29,155 How about with people? 249 00:13:29,190 --> 00:13:30,981 I used to... 250 00:13:32,772 --> 00:13:36,288 I used to always like to have fun. 251 00:13:36,323 --> 00:13:39,300 I used to always be going places. 252 00:13:39,335 --> 00:13:42,277 I don't like to do nothing no more. 253 00:13:44,208 --> 00:13:45,714 How long were you overseas? 254 00:13:51,452 --> 00:13:53,248 11 months. 255 00:13:52,723 --> 00:13:54,978 Were you in any combat at all? 256 00:13:55,013 --> 00:13:57,385 Just the second month, sir. 257 00:13:59,116 --> 00:14:02,988 I tried every way to keep my mind occupied-- 258 00:14:03,023 --> 00:14:06,825 reading, going to the gymnasium, getting... 259 00:14:06,860 --> 00:14:11,593 going out with the fellows and trying to become an extrovert, 260 00:14:11,628 --> 00:14:14,059 trying to get out of myself. 261 00:14:14,094 --> 00:14:16,230 But it seemed to Me that I got worse and worse. 262 00:14:16,265 --> 00:14:20,297 And after a while I developed... after the fear of insanity, 263 00:14:20,332 --> 00:14:23,269 I started developing fears, different sorts. 264 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,771 Did you ever have similar pains before you got... 265 00:14:27,806 --> 00:14:29,998 Never in my life. 266 00:14:30,033 --> 00:14:31,673 Have you ever been nervous before in your life? 267 00:14:31,709 --> 00:14:32,771 No, sir. 268 00:14:32,806 --> 00:14:34,299 Never. I was a solid man. 269 00:14:35,535 --> 00:14:37,801 Do some noises bother you particularly? 270 00:14:37,836 --> 00:14:42,008 I just shake a little, but not bad. 271 00:14:43,539 --> 00:14:45,741 Well, I guess I just got tired of living. 272 00:14:45,776 --> 00:14:47,512 You know, put it that way. 273 00:14:48,642 --> 00:14:50,563 I have trouble sleeping, yes. 274 00:14:50,598 --> 00:14:52,485 Dreaming of combat, you know? 275 00:14:53,915 --> 00:14:55,480 I just took off, because I see 276 00:14:55,515 --> 00:15:00,048 too many of my buddies gone, and I figured the next one was me. 277 00:15:00,083 --> 00:15:02,750 A man can just stand so much up there, see? 278 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:05,516 Admission note. 279 00:15:05,851 --> 00:15:13,496 Poole, P-O-O-L-E comma Walter L, T5. 280 00:15:13,531 --> 00:15:15,761 Transfer diagnosis. 281 00:15:15,796 --> 00:15:19,698 Anxiety reaction, severe. 282 00:15:19,733 --> 00:15:23,601 Active symptoms in remission. 283 00:15:26,863 --> 00:15:29,429 On this, their first night back in the States, 284 00:15:29,464 --> 00:15:33,565 each man who is able may make a long distance call without cost. 285 00:15:36,802 --> 00:15:40,186 After months and years of silence, 286 00:15:40,221 --> 00:15:43,571 familiar voices are heard once again. 287 00:15:50,115 --> 00:15:52,612 Then each man makes for himself a small home 288 00:15:52,647 --> 00:15:56,518 which will be his for the eight or ten weeks to come. 289 00:16:15,488 --> 00:16:17,594 Now in the darkness of the ward 290 00:16:17,629 --> 00:16:20,246 emerge the shapes born of darkness, 291 00:16:20,281 --> 00:16:22,862 the terror of things half remembered. 292 00:16:22,897 --> 00:16:24,528 Dreams of battle, 293 00:16:24,563 --> 00:16:27,835 the torment of uncertainty and fear and loneliness. 294 00:16:50,847 --> 00:16:54,378 The day begins with an early morning ward inspection. 295 00:16:54,413 --> 00:16:55,674 The medical officer in charge 296 00:16:55,709 --> 00:16:58,381 checks the condition of every man. 297 00:17:00,282 --> 00:17:02,513 Modern psychiatry makes no sharp division 298 00:17:02,548 --> 00:17:05,150 between the mind and the body. 299 00:17:05,185 --> 00:17:08,422 Physical ills often have psychic causes, 300 00:17:08,457 --> 00:17:11,759 just as emotional ills may have a physical basis. 301 00:17:11,794 --> 00:17:15,024 Possibilities of organic disturbance in the brain 302 00:17:15,060 --> 00:17:18,492 are investigated by means of the electroencephalograph. 303 00:17:22,194 --> 00:17:23,930 The Rorschach Test. 304 00:17:23,965 --> 00:17:27,197 The things that the patient's imagination sees in these cards 305 00:17:27,232 --> 00:17:30,028 gives significant clues to his personality makeup. 306 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:39,738 This looks sort of like a drawing of two women 307 00:17:40,974 --> 00:17:44,676 standing on a rock and waving their hands. 308 00:17:55,311 --> 00:17:58,143 This man suffering from a conversion hysteria 309 00:17:58,178 --> 00:18:00,209 requires immediate treatment. 310 00:18:00,244 --> 00:18:03,346 Organically sound, his paralysis is as real 311 00:18:03,381 --> 00:18:06,217 as if were caused by a spinal lesion. 312 00:18:06,252 --> 00:18:08,454 But it is purely psychological. 313 00:18:08,489 --> 00:18:11,589 Well, just sit up top the middle of the bed there. 314 00:18:14,491 --> 00:18:15,752 I feel pretty good, though. 315 00:18:15,787 --> 00:18:16,787 That's fine. 316 00:18:16,822 --> 00:18:19,254 Now sit yourself over there. 317 00:18:25,858 --> 00:18:27,759 Well, now, can you move over just a little 318 00:18:27,794 --> 00:18:28,776 so I can talk to you? 319 00:18:28,811 --> 00:18:29,725 Yes, sir. 320 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:31,095 Now, what is the trouble? 321 00:18:31,130 --> 00:18:32,395 You seem to be upset. 322 00:18:32,431 --> 00:18:34,397 Just nervous. Nervous? 323 00:18:34,432 --> 00:18:35,767 Yes. It makes me flinch like that. 324 00:18:35,802 --> 00:18:37,433 I see. How long has that been going on? 325 00:18:37,468 --> 00:18:38,816 Since Friday. 326 00:18:38,851 --> 00:18:40,130 Friday. 327 00:18:40,165 --> 00:18:41,271 Friday night. 328 00:18:41,306 --> 00:18:42,957 Come on suddenly or gradually? 329 00:18:42,992 --> 00:18:44,573 Suddenly, sir. How? 330 00:18:44,608 --> 00:18:45,738 Well, it started in the afternoon with crying spells. 331 00:18:47,169 --> 00:18:49,410 And felt something funny in my shoulders here. 332 00:18:49,445 --> 00:18:51,275 Back bothered me. 333 00:18:51,310 --> 00:18:53,272 Just started crying, lost control of my legs and my arms. 334 00:18:53,307 --> 00:18:54,772 Was there any reason for crying spells? 335 00:18:54,808 --> 00:18:56,273 I don't know, sir. 336 00:18:57,374 --> 00:18:59,010 Anything happen at home to bother you? 337 00:18:59,045 --> 00:19:00,646 Well, my mother's been ill. 338 00:19:00,681 --> 00:19:01,879 She has been ill? 339 00:19:01,914 --> 00:19:03,077 That worry you a lot? 340 00:19:03,112 --> 00:19:04,583 Quite a bit. 341 00:19:04,618 --> 00:19:05,919 Well, now, has this got anything to do 342 00:19:05,954 --> 00:19:07,215 with your mother's illness? 343 00:19:07,250 --> 00:19:08,781 Any reason why you should have that kind of reaction? 344 00:19:08,816 --> 00:19:10,686 No, sir, not that I know of. 345 00:19:10,721 --> 00:19:12,552 Unless my mother's illness might have brought this on. 346 00:19:12,587 --> 00:19:14,283 I try to hold in, but it hurts. 347 00:19:14,318 --> 00:19:15,489 I see. 348 00:19:15,524 --> 00:19:16,724 You've just been holding these things in. 349 00:19:16,759 --> 00:19:17,890 That's right, sir. 350 00:19:17,925 --> 00:19:19,626 No way you can control this at all? 351 00:19:19,661 --> 00:19:21,152 No, sir. 352 00:19:21,187 --> 00:19:23,228 Well, now, we're going to have to help you do that, 353 00:19:23,263 --> 00:19:24,254 of course. 354 00:19:24,289 --> 00:19:26,490 Let's take off this jacket here. 355 00:19:30,491 --> 00:19:32,928 Just slip that off. 356 00:19:32,963 --> 00:19:35,194 All right, now lie down on the bed. 357 00:19:35,229 --> 00:19:36,960 Shoes? 358 00:19:36,995 --> 00:19:39,697 No, we're leaving the shoes on so you can walk in them. 359 00:19:39,732 --> 00:19:41,298 I think we're going to get you walking. 360 00:19:41,333 --> 00:19:42,298 Let's come over here. 361 00:19:42,333 --> 00:19:43,616 That's the boy. 362 00:19:43,651 --> 00:19:44,961 That's fine. 363 00:19:44,996 --> 00:19:46,235 That's good. 364 00:19:46,270 --> 00:19:47,836 Now you lie steady. 365 00:19:47,871 --> 00:19:49,267 Lie steady, that's a boy. 366 00:19:49,302 --> 00:19:53,003 This is all going to go away as I give you this medicine. 367 00:19:53,038 --> 00:19:55,645 No bother at all. 368 00:19:58,547 --> 00:19:59,742 The method employed here 369 00:19:59,777 --> 00:20:02,379 is effective in certain types of acute cases. 370 00:20:02,414 --> 00:20:04,980 An intravenous injection of sodium amytal 371 00:20:05,015 --> 00:20:07,282 induces a state similar to hypnosis. 372 00:20:12,254 --> 00:20:14,050 What a torpedo that is. 373 00:20:14,085 --> 00:20:15,786 You mind if I look this way? 374 00:20:15,821 --> 00:20:16,781 You look that way. 375 00:20:16,816 --> 00:20:18,052 Nothing for you to watch here. 376 00:20:18,087 --> 00:20:20,488 But you're going to talk to me as we go along. 377 00:20:20,523 --> 00:20:21,584 Yes, sir. 378 00:20:21,619 --> 00:20:23,025 That's all. 379 00:20:23,060 --> 00:20:24,521 Now, you're not going to feel much of anything else. 380 00:20:24,556 --> 00:20:26,827 You're going to feel a little bit woozy. 381 00:20:26,862 --> 00:20:30,488 The use of this drug serves a twofold purpose. 382 00:20:30,523 --> 00:20:34,065 Like hypnosis, it is a shortcut to the unconscious mind. 383 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:36,432 As a surgeon probes for a bullet, 384 00:20:36,467 --> 00:20:39,729 the psychiatrist explores the submerged regions of the mind, 385 00:20:39,764 --> 00:20:42,317 attempting to locate and bring to the surface 386 00:20:42,352 --> 00:20:44,872 the emotional conflict which is the cause 387 00:20:44,907 --> 00:20:47,268 of the patient's distress. 388 00:20:47,303 --> 00:20:50,334 The second purpose of this drug is to remove through suggestion 389 00:20:50,369 --> 00:20:53,841 those symptoms which impede the patient's recovery. 390 00:20:53,876 --> 00:20:58,278 Now tell me a little bit about what you're thinking of. 391 00:20:58,313 --> 00:21:01,380 The thoughts are coming to your mind now. 392 00:21:01,415 --> 00:21:02,776 Nothing in particular. 393 00:21:02,811 --> 00:21:04,147 Well, now, let's go back. 394 00:21:04,182 --> 00:21:05,483 Let's go back to Friday. 395 00:21:05,518 --> 00:21:06,578 Friday? 396 00:21:06,613 --> 00:21:07,644 Yeah, think about that. 397 00:21:07,679 --> 00:21:09,279 Friday. 398 00:21:09,314 --> 00:21:10,750 My mother argues with me. 399 00:21:10,785 --> 00:21:11,985 Your mother argues with you. 400 00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:13,253 Yeah. 401 00:21:14,487 --> 00:21:15,913 What does she argue about? 402 00:21:15,948 --> 00:21:17,153 Oh, every little thing. 403 00:21:17,188 --> 00:21:18,649 If you sit down in the wrong chair 404 00:21:18,684 --> 00:21:20,185 or something like that. 405 00:21:20,220 --> 00:21:22,251 Doesn't like the stuff we get in the store. 406 00:21:23,552 --> 00:21:25,118 Then she calms down. 407 00:21:25,153 --> 00:21:26,524 Well, see, have you always tried to please her? 408 00:21:26,559 --> 00:21:27,659 Yes. 409 00:21:28,794 --> 00:21:29,890 Always tried to please her. 410 00:21:29,925 --> 00:21:31,095 I used to clean the house with her 411 00:21:31,130 --> 00:21:32,361 when I was smaller. 412 00:21:32,396 --> 00:21:33,627 Well, now, why do you think she argues like that? 413 00:21:33,662 --> 00:21:35,363 Because she's sick? 414 00:21:35,398 --> 00:21:38,360 Well, she doesn't try to control her temper. 415 00:21:38,395 --> 00:21:39,662 I see. 416 00:21:40,931 --> 00:21:42,047 How about your father? 417 00:21:42,082 --> 00:21:43,127 He's a swell guy. 418 00:21:43,162 --> 00:21:44,298 He's a swell fellow, is he? 419 00:21:44,333 --> 00:21:46,399 Gets kind of hot tempered. 420 00:21:46,434 --> 00:21:49,465 Since my mother's been sick it's been costing a lot of money. 421 00:21:51,066 --> 00:21:53,167 And he's lost a lot of weight from worrying. 422 00:21:53,202 --> 00:21:54,403 I see. 423 00:21:54,438 --> 00:21:55,704 My mother argues with him, 424 00:21:55,739 --> 00:21:57,009 she wants to know where the money is. 425 00:21:58,570 --> 00:21:59,706 But I don't care about that, 426 00:21:59,741 --> 00:22:00,912 long as everything turns out all right. 427 00:22:00,947 --> 00:22:02,338 Yeah. 428 00:22:02,373 --> 00:22:04,844 Well, now, this jumping, what does that make you think of? 429 00:22:04,879 --> 00:22:06,477 Think about it a minute. 430 00:22:06,512 --> 00:22:07,814 I can't help it. 431 00:22:07,849 --> 00:22:09,147 It just jumps. 432 00:22:10,446 --> 00:22:11,762 How about the legs? 433 00:22:11,797 --> 00:22:13,043 Do you know anybody 434 00:22:13,078 --> 00:22:14,148 that had any trouble with their legs like that? 435 00:22:14,183 --> 00:22:15,844 No, sir. Except... 436 00:22:15,879 --> 00:22:17,786 What did it make you think of? Go on. 437 00:22:17,821 --> 00:22:18,921 Except several... several years ago... 438 00:22:19,922 --> 00:22:21,518 ...there was one fellow, 439 00:22:21,553 --> 00:22:23,569 he had something wrong with his right leg. 440 00:22:23,604 --> 00:22:25,585 Wound in the knee, but he's walking today. 441 00:22:25,620 --> 00:22:26,721 That hasn't bothered me. 442 00:22:26,756 --> 00:22:27,890 Was that anything like your leg? 443 00:22:27,925 --> 00:22:29,606 No, he couldn't walk at all. 444 00:22:29,641 --> 00:22:31,287 He couldn't walk at all? 445 00:22:31,322 --> 00:22:32,723 No. 446 00:22:32,758 --> 00:22:34,489 What do you think of when you can't walk like that? 447 00:22:34,524 --> 00:22:35,695 I wish I could walk. 448 00:22:35,730 --> 00:22:37,691 But what do you think of? 449 00:22:37,726 --> 00:22:38,797 What comes to your mind 450 00:22:38,832 --> 00:22:39,892 when you find that you can't walk? 451 00:22:39,927 --> 00:22:40,928 Just maybe I think 452 00:22:40,963 --> 00:22:42,134 my mother and father should be okay. 453 00:22:42,169 --> 00:22:43,359 Sometimes I wonder. 454 00:22:43,394 --> 00:22:45,796 Hope the war ends soon, and things like that. 455 00:22:45,831 --> 00:22:46,901 I see. 456 00:22:46,937 --> 00:22:47,961 Nothing in particular. 457 00:22:47,996 --> 00:22:50,838 Mm-hmm. And now the shakes are gone, now, haven't they? 458 00:22:50,873 --> 00:22:52,504 Yeah. How about your legs? 459 00:22:52,539 --> 00:22:53,569 They're good and strong. 460 00:22:53,604 --> 00:22:54,565 They feel all right. 461 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,766 Move them. Let's raise them. 462 00:22:56,801 --> 00:22:57,972 I was able to raise them before, but I can't walk. 463 00:22:58,007 --> 00:22:59,838 How about them now? 464 00:22:59,873 --> 00:23:01,359 They feel all right. 465 00:23:01,394 --> 00:23:02,810 They feel good now, 466 00:23:02,845 --> 00:23:04,045 as if you can walk on them, don't they? 467 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,441 Toes feel numb. 468 00:23:05,476 --> 00:23:06,577 Toes feel numb, but that's going away, isn't it? 469 00:23:06,612 --> 00:23:07,672 Yeah. 470 00:23:07,707 --> 00:23:09,508 See? Raising them fine, isn't it? 471 00:23:09,543 --> 00:23:10,943 Yeah. 472 00:23:10,978 --> 00:23:12,279 Now you're going to be able to walk, aren't you? 473 00:23:12,314 --> 00:23:13,615 I don't know. 474 00:23:13,650 --> 00:23:14,911 Well, you're going to, aren't you? 475 00:23:14,946 --> 00:23:17,347 Yes, sir. 476 00:23:17,382 --> 00:23:18,778 All right. 477 00:23:18,813 --> 00:23:19,919 I'll walk. 478 00:23:19,954 --> 00:23:21,149 I like walking. 479 00:23:21,184 --> 00:23:22,650 You love walking. 480 00:23:22,685 --> 00:23:24,081 Always been very fond of walking. 481 00:23:24,116 --> 00:23:25,722 Now you've found yourself unable to walk. 482 00:23:25,757 --> 00:23:29,388 Now you're going to get right up and walk, right now. 483 00:23:29,423 --> 00:23:33,421 All right, now let's sit up. 484 00:23:36,192 --> 00:23:37,463 Sit up on the side of the bed. 485 00:23:37,498 --> 00:23:38,946 Here you are. 486 00:23:38,981 --> 00:23:40,360 That's fine. 487 00:23:40,395 --> 00:23:43,196 All right, now stand up. 488 00:23:43,231 --> 00:23:44,627 And look at that. 489 00:23:44,662 --> 00:23:45,863 That good? 490 00:23:45,898 --> 00:23:47,062 All right, now walk out here. 491 00:23:47,098 --> 00:23:48,668 Walk over to the nurse all by yourself. 492 00:23:48,703 --> 00:23:49,964 That's the boy. 493 00:23:49,999 --> 00:23:50,995 Walk over to the nurse. 494 00:23:51,030 --> 00:23:52,901 You're just a little woozy. That's the medicine. 495 00:23:52,936 --> 00:23:54,054 Now come back to me. 496 00:23:54,089 --> 00:23:55,310 Come back to me. 497 00:23:55,345 --> 00:23:56,724 Open your eyes. 498 00:23:56,759 --> 00:23:58,069 That's the boy. 499 00:23:58,104 --> 00:23:59,535 Isn't that fine, isn't that wonderful? 500 00:23:59,570 --> 00:24:00,570 Sure. 501 00:24:00,605 --> 00:24:02,006 All right, now again, once more. 502 00:24:02,041 --> 00:24:03,342 Careful. 503 00:24:03,377 --> 00:24:04,638 I don't know how long I'm going to be this way. 504 00:24:04,673 --> 00:24:05,978 Oh, it's going to stay that way. 505 00:24:06,014 --> 00:24:07,173 It's going to stay, 506 00:24:07,208 --> 00:24:08,979 because that's taken care of your worry now. 507 00:24:09,014 --> 00:24:10,547 All right, now come on back to me, 508 00:24:10,582 --> 00:24:12,046 and I'm going to let you go to sleep. 509 00:24:12,081 --> 00:24:14,683 When you wake up, you'll keep on walking perfectly well. 510 00:24:14,718 --> 00:24:15,648 How about it? 511 00:24:15,683 --> 00:24:17,249 Thanks, sir. 512 00:24:17,284 --> 00:24:18,780 Right-o. 513 00:24:18,815 --> 00:24:21,987 All right, now let's get up on here, and we'll go to sleep. 514 00:24:23,848 --> 00:24:25,054 Now, there you go. 515 00:24:25,089 --> 00:24:26,288 Now, I'm going to have you go right to sleep. 516 00:24:26,323 --> 00:24:27,649 When you wake up, it'll be all right. 517 00:24:27,684 --> 00:24:29,515 Thanks. 518 00:24:29,550 --> 00:24:30,986 All right, sleep, Girardi. 519 00:24:31,021 --> 00:24:32,817 The fact that he can walk now 520 00:24:32,852 --> 00:24:35,494 does not mean that his neurosis has been cured. 521 00:24:35,529 --> 00:24:37,520 That will require time. 522 00:24:37,555 --> 00:24:42,358 But the way has been opened for the therapy to follow. 523 00:24:44,829 --> 00:24:48,030 Now a new way of living begins, very different from the old one, 524 00:24:48,065 --> 00:24:51,402 whose purpose was killing and trying not to be killed. 525 00:24:51,437 --> 00:24:54,564 Now in an environment of peace and safety, 526 00:24:54,599 --> 00:24:56,830 all the violence behind them, 527 00:24:56,865 --> 00:24:59,802 they are building rather than destroying. 528 00:24:59,837 --> 00:25:02,969 Men have their choice of occupational therapy. 529 00:25:03,004 --> 00:25:06,475 Some find relaxation in mechanical jobs. 530 00:25:06,510 --> 00:25:09,792 Certain types of cases obtain relief in precision work, 531 00:25:09,827 --> 00:25:13,074 which answers their inner need for order and certainty. 532 00:25:13,109 --> 00:25:15,910 For sons and daughters and nieces and nephews 533 00:25:15,945 --> 00:25:21,879 and neighbors' kids, hobbyhorses are turned out by the carload. 534 00:25:27,081 --> 00:25:30,318 Physical reconditioning is not the only purpose in sports, 535 00:25:30,353 --> 00:25:33,554 which also serve to bring men out of their emotional isolation 536 00:25:33,589 --> 00:25:37,126 and back into group activity. 537 00:25:38,257 --> 00:25:40,058 One of the most important procedures 538 00:25:40,093 --> 00:25:42,525 is group psychotherapy. 539 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,230 Here under the psychiatrist's guidance 540 00:25:45,265 --> 00:25:47,156 the patient learns to understand 541 00:25:47,191 --> 00:25:50,113 something of the basic causes of his distress. 542 00:25:50,148 --> 00:25:53,307 As one of a group, he also learns to understand 543 00:25:53,342 --> 00:25:56,467 that his inner conflicts are, with variations, 544 00:25:56,502 --> 00:26:00,864 common to all men. 545 00:26:00,899 --> 00:26:02,735 I think of it a little bit like this. 546 00:26:02,770 --> 00:26:06,802 We want to get you out of your own feeling of isolation, 547 00:26:06,837 --> 00:26:11,009 to get you to feel like you are like other people. 548 00:26:11,044 --> 00:26:16,778 In order to get to that, we have to use knowledge as one thing, 549 00:26:17,813 --> 00:26:21,250 and something else which has to be added, 550 00:26:21,285 --> 00:26:23,984 and that is an experience of safety. 551 00:26:24,019 --> 00:26:26,682 You could say it is almost the core 552 00:26:26,717 --> 00:26:29,349 of all our treatment methods-- 553 00:26:29,384 --> 00:26:33,521 development of knowledge of oneself 554 00:26:33,556 --> 00:26:36,838 with the accompanying safety that it brings. 555 00:26:36,873 --> 00:26:40,120 I'd like to see if we can get some illustrations 556 00:26:40,155 --> 00:26:43,227 of how one's personal safety 557 00:26:43,262 --> 00:26:46,543 would stem from childhood safety, 558 00:26:46,578 --> 00:26:50,452 and how the childhood safety itself 559 00:26:50,487 --> 00:26:54,193 would stem from the parents' safety. 560 00:26:54,228 --> 00:26:57,864 My illustration, as a child, 561 00:26:57,899 --> 00:27:00,536 whenever I underwent any experiences 562 00:27:00,571 --> 00:27:04,172 that were frightening to me, I never told my parents. 563 00:27:04,207 --> 00:27:05,768 I kept it to myself. 564 00:27:05,803 --> 00:27:09,135 While I was alone at night in my room I'd call on God. 565 00:27:09,170 --> 00:27:11,676 If I did anything wrong that I was ashamed of, 566 00:27:11,712 --> 00:27:14,010 I was ashamed to go to my parents 567 00:27:14,045 --> 00:27:16,309 and tell them what I had done. 568 00:27:16,344 --> 00:27:18,280 So I kept it to myself. 569 00:27:18,315 --> 00:27:19,806 And I used to... 570 00:27:19,841 --> 00:27:22,243 I know I used to be in constant fear that my parents 571 00:27:22,278 --> 00:27:24,478 would find out my feelings. 572 00:27:24,513 --> 00:27:27,044 Well, I wonder if there's any of your mother's troubles 573 00:27:27,079 --> 00:27:28,510 that you would know about. 574 00:27:29,646 --> 00:27:36,090 No, my mother never gave any of the children 575 00:27:36,125 --> 00:27:37,656 any part of her troubles. 576 00:27:37,691 --> 00:27:40,657 Well, that would be the same thing that happened to you. 577 00:27:41,993 --> 00:27:46,225 She didn't tell her troubles, and you didn't tell yours. 578 00:27:46,260 --> 00:27:48,421 You took your troubles to God, 579 00:27:48,456 --> 00:27:50,622 and she probably did the same thing. 580 00:27:50,657 --> 00:27:54,144 Probably didn't even confide in your father. 581 00:27:54,179 --> 00:27:57,596 In other words, the kind of method that you used 582 00:27:57,631 --> 00:28:02,169 to get relief from anxiety was really, we have to assume, 583 00:28:02,204 --> 00:28:06,365 learned and felt right in your home in the same kind of thing. 584 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,371 I think it was all caused by 585 00:28:08,406 --> 00:28:11,303 economic conditions in the world. 586 00:28:11,338 --> 00:28:15,140 I mean, people trying to comp... compete with one another, 587 00:28:15,175 --> 00:28:16,506 trying to get a better job, 588 00:28:16,541 --> 00:28:19,038 trying to keep up with the prices of living. 589 00:28:19,073 --> 00:28:21,844 Things like that have caused a lot of arguments in the home. 590 00:28:21,879 --> 00:28:24,510 Mother and father arguing about the price of food, 591 00:28:24,545 --> 00:28:27,046 and that has a reflection on the children, things like that. 592 00:28:27,081 --> 00:28:29,042 So I think that was one of the causes. 593 00:28:29,077 --> 00:28:31,419 Was it worse not having enough food to eat, 594 00:28:31,454 --> 00:28:32,950 or the arguments between them? 595 00:28:32,985 --> 00:28:33,945 Well, both. 596 00:28:33,980 --> 00:28:35,146 I mean, there was... 597 00:28:35,181 --> 00:28:36,917 Which was the worst, though? 598 00:28:36,952 --> 00:28:38,368 I guess the arguments. 599 00:28:38,403 --> 00:28:39,744 Sure they were. 600 00:28:39,779 --> 00:28:41,049 Of course they are. 601 00:28:41,084 --> 00:28:42,255 Because I can't remember about the food. 602 00:28:42,290 --> 00:28:43,720 There you are. 603 00:28:43,755 --> 00:28:45,526 You can't even remember about the food, and the lack of food. 604 00:28:45,561 --> 00:28:48,788 I have in mind my own childhood, where, 605 00:28:48,823 --> 00:28:51,024 coming from a moderate family... 606 00:28:51,059 --> 00:28:53,161 moderate in the sense that the family 607 00:28:53,196 --> 00:28:55,427 had some sense of security. 608 00:28:55,462 --> 00:29:00,465 What happened there was we were told that we... 609 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:02,947 I mean, myself, my brothers and sisters, 610 00:29:02,982 --> 00:29:05,362 we couldn't just play with any of the kids 611 00:29:05,397 --> 00:29:09,939 we wanted to play with, unless their parents in turn 612 00:29:09,974 --> 00:29:13,536 had the equivalent of what our parents had. 613 00:29:13,571 --> 00:29:17,804 And as a result, we were kept in a narrow circle, 614 00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:19,510 very, very, narrow. 615 00:29:19,545 --> 00:29:24,447 However, I have found that there has been a strong yearning 616 00:29:24,482 --> 00:29:28,166 on my part to break out of this environment, 617 00:29:28,201 --> 00:29:31,851 to be able to play with Tom, Dick, and Harry. 618 00:29:31,886 --> 00:29:34,277 I say the net result's like this. 619 00:29:34,312 --> 00:29:37,179 Your mother did not feel really so superior. 620 00:29:37,214 --> 00:29:41,457 She felt inferior when she tried to make you take the attitude 621 00:29:41,492 --> 00:29:43,989 you were better than the other children, 622 00:29:44,024 --> 00:29:46,489 so that now certain experiences in the Army 623 00:29:46,524 --> 00:29:48,555 have brought that out more clearly, 624 00:29:48,590 --> 00:29:51,591 because you've been thrown in with Tom and Dick and Harry, 625 00:29:51,627 --> 00:29:54,558 and need to get along with them. 626 00:29:54,593 --> 00:29:56,459 It's not necessary to be in the Army. 627 00:29:56,494 --> 00:29:58,290 It's not necessary to be in the war. 628 00:29:58,325 --> 00:30:02,477 These kind of troubles have always gone on 629 00:30:02,512 --> 00:30:06,629 in all time through all the centuries. 630 00:30:06,664 --> 00:30:07,735 You were going to say something. 631 00:30:07,770 --> 00:30:09,671 I never spoke until I was seven. 632 00:30:09,706 --> 00:30:11,104 Is that right? 633 00:30:11,139 --> 00:30:12,468 Yes, sir. 634 00:30:12,503 --> 00:30:13,668 And I stuttered very bad. 635 00:30:13,703 --> 00:30:16,805 At 14 and 15 I couldn't recite in school. 636 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,842 Today I'm able to talk. 637 00:30:19,877 --> 00:30:22,077 Can you explain how you got started to talk, 638 00:30:22,112 --> 00:30:24,304 how you began to get over that? 639 00:30:25,239 --> 00:30:27,946 During the war, the first word I ever spoke, 640 00:30:29,682 --> 00:30:34,084 Santa Claus had brought me a war gun, and my brother broke it. 641 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,245 This is the First World War, yes. 642 00:30:36,481 --> 00:30:37,611 And so I... 643 00:30:37,846 --> 00:30:39,652 Santa Claus was not in your... 644 00:30:39,938 --> 00:30:43,749 When I went in to get my gun, I just said... 645 00:30:43,984 --> 00:30:46,502 walked in, "Somebody broke my gun." 646 00:30:46,537 --> 00:30:48,387 That was the first thing I said. 647 00:30:48,422 --> 00:30:50,608 You were angry because someone broke your gun. 648 00:30:50,643 --> 00:30:52,999 So that's the way I started talking. 649 00:30:53,034 --> 00:30:55,321 I would say all those symptoms, 650 00:30:55,356 --> 00:30:59,028 like being unable to speak, stuttering and so on, 651 00:30:59,063 --> 00:31:02,259 they have an underlying anger and resentment 652 00:31:02,294 --> 00:31:06,201 in the deeper parts of the personality. 653 00:31:06,236 --> 00:31:08,027 You could almost say it like this. 654 00:31:08,062 --> 00:31:14,130 Underneath "I can't" you usually find "I won't." 655 00:31:15,166 --> 00:31:17,137 Stuttering on Okinawa, I was stuttering too, 656 00:31:17,172 --> 00:31:18,803 about three weeks. 657 00:31:18,838 --> 00:31:20,668 And as soon as I came here... I've been here a month now... 658 00:31:20,703 --> 00:31:23,105 I stopped stuttering. 659 00:31:23,140 --> 00:31:24,641 You've stopped stuttering completely since you came here. 660 00:31:24,676 --> 00:31:26,837 Yes, sir. Well, that's good. 661 00:31:26,872 --> 00:31:28,243 I don't know whether that's a tribute to the doctors 662 00:31:28,278 --> 00:31:30,346 or a tribute to your fundamental health. 663 00:31:30,381 --> 00:31:32,380 It's due to my fundamental self. 664 00:31:32,415 --> 00:31:33,976 No tribute to the doctors at all. 665 00:31:34,011 --> 00:31:35,112 No, sir. 666 00:31:35,147 --> 00:31:36,177 Very good. 667 00:31:38,549 --> 00:31:41,079 Some patients require special therapy. 668 00:31:41,114 --> 00:31:42,585 Hypnosis is often effective 669 00:31:42,620 --> 00:31:46,953 in certain types of battle neuroses, such as amnesia. 670 00:31:46,988 --> 00:31:50,357 This man does not even remember his own name. 671 00:31:50,392 --> 00:31:53,691 A shell burst in Okinawa wiped out his memory. 672 00:31:53,727 --> 00:31:57,309 The experience was unendurable to his conscious mind, 673 00:31:57,344 --> 00:32:00,890 which rejected it, and along with it, his entire past. 674 00:32:00,925 --> 00:32:02,656 Through hypnotic suggestion, 675 00:32:02,691 --> 00:32:04,457 the psychiatrist will attempt to evoke them. 676 00:32:04,492 --> 00:32:09,365 Relax completely, and put your mind on going to sleep. 677 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,001 All right, now, keep your eyes on mine, 678 00:32:12,036 --> 00:32:15,168 keep your eyes on mine, and keep them fixed on mine. 679 00:32:15,203 --> 00:32:17,334 Keep your mind entirely on falling asleep. 680 00:32:17,369 --> 00:32:19,720 You're going to go into a deep sleep as we go in. 681 00:32:19,755 --> 00:32:22,071 You're going to go into a deep sleep as we go in. 682 00:32:22,106 --> 00:32:23,907 Now clasp your hands in front of you. 683 00:32:23,942 --> 00:32:26,308 Clasp them tight, tight, tight, tight, tight. 684 00:32:26,343 --> 00:32:28,560 They're getting tighter and tighter and tighter, 685 00:32:28,595 --> 00:32:30,621 and as they get tighter, you're falling asleep. 686 00:32:30,656 --> 00:32:32,647 As they get tighter and you're falling asleep, 687 00:32:32,682 --> 00:32:34,315 your eyes are getting heavy, heavy. 688 00:32:34,350 --> 00:32:35,949 Now your hands are locked tight. 689 00:32:35,984 --> 00:32:37,382 They're locked tight. 690 00:32:37,417 --> 00:32:38,734 They're locked tight. 691 00:32:38,769 --> 00:32:40,015 You can't let go. 692 00:32:40,050 --> 00:32:42,177 They're locked tight. You can't let go. 693 00:32:42,212 --> 00:32:43,683 When I snap my fingers, you'll be able to let go. 694 00:32:43,718 --> 00:32:45,153 When I snap my finger, you'll be able to let go, 695 00:32:45,188 --> 00:32:46,319 and then you'll get sleepier, 696 00:32:46,354 --> 00:32:47,680 and your eyes are getting heavier. 697 00:32:47,715 --> 00:32:49,686 Now your eyes are getting heavier, heavier, heavier. 698 00:32:49,721 --> 00:32:52,405 You're going into a deep, deep sleep. 699 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,089 You're going into a deep, deep sleep. 700 00:32:55,124 --> 00:32:57,426 Deep asleep, far asleep. 701 00:32:57,461 --> 00:33:00,421 Eyes are now closed tight, closed tight. 702 00:33:00,456 --> 00:33:02,925 Going to a deep, deep sleep. 703 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,394 Deeply relaxed, far asleep. 704 00:33:05,429 --> 00:33:07,177 You're far asleep. 705 00:33:07,212 --> 00:33:08,891 You're far asleep. 706 00:33:08,926 --> 00:33:11,113 Now you're in a deep sleep. 707 00:33:11,148 --> 00:33:13,299 You have no fear, no anxiety. 708 00:33:13,334 --> 00:33:14,935 No fear, no anxiety. 709 00:33:14,970 --> 00:33:16,636 Now you're in a deep, deep, sleep. 710 00:33:16,671 --> 00:33:19,872 Now just sit down in the chair behind you. 711 00:33:19,907 --> 00:33:22,073 Sit down in the chair behind you. 712 00:33:22,108 --> 00:33:25,440 Lean back. 713 00:33:25,475 --> 00:33:29,007 Head now falls forward into a deep, deep sleep. 714 00:33:29,042 --> 00:33:30,773 Head now is falling forward. 715 00:33:30,808 --> 00:33:33,880 You're going further and further and further asleep. 716 00:33:33,915 --> 00:33:35,541 When I stroke, your left arm will become rigid 717 00:33:35,576 --> 00:33:36,746 like a bar of steel, 718 00:33:36,781 --> 00:33:41,648 and you'll go further asleep and further asleep. 719 00:33:41,683 --> 00:33:45,786 You're falling further and further and further asleep. 720 00:33:45,821 --> 00:33:47,252 Rigid. 721 00:33:47,287 --> 00:33:50,283 Cannot be bent or relaxed. 722 00:33:50,318 --> 00:33:52,415 When I touch the top of your head, 723 00:33:52,450 --> 00:33:54,886 when I touch the top of your head, that arm will relax, 724 00:33:54,921 --> 00:33:57,322 and the other will become rigid, and you'll go further asleep. 725 00:33:57,357 --> 00:34:00,423 You'll be in a very deep sleep. 726 00:34:03,595 --> 00:34:06,392 And your sleep is deeper and deeper. 727 00:34:06,427 --> 00:34:10,129 Now when I touch this hand, my finger will be hot. 728 00:34:10,164 --> 00:34:13,831 When I touch this hand, my finger will be hot. 729 00:34:13,866 --> 00:34:17,103 You will not be able to bear it. 730 00:34:17,138 --> 00:34:19,468 Your arm is rigid. 731 00:34:19,503 --> 00:34:22,370 And now, as I touch your hand, 732 00:34:22,405 --> 00:34:24,536 you will no longer feel any pain there. 733 00:34:24,571 --> 00:34:26,572 It will be normal. 734 00:34:26,607 --> 00:34:27,933 Now the arm is relaxed, 735 00:34:27,968 --> 00:34:30,370 and you're further and further and further asleep. 736 00:34:30,405 --> 00:34:32,571 Now you're deep asleep. 737 00:34:32,606 --> 00:34:34,974 We're going back. 738 00:34:35,009 --> 00:34:37,412 We're going back now. 739 00:34:37,447 --> 00:34:40,010 Going back to Okinawa. 740 00:34:40,045 --> 00:34:42,576 Going back to Okinawa. 741 00:34:42,611 --> 00:34:44,244 You can talk. 742 00:34:44,279 --> 00:34:45,843 You can talk. 743 00:34:45,878 --> 00:34:48,364 You can remember everything. 744 00:34:48,399 --> 00:34:50,851 You can remember everything. 745 00:34:50,886 --> 00:34:52,483 You're back on Okinawa. 746 00:34:52,518 --> 00:34:54,082 Tell me what you see. 747 00:34:54,117 --> 00:34:55,685 Tell me. 748 00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:57,218 Speak. 749 00:34:57,253 --> 00:34:58,689 I'm in the battery area. 750 00:34:58,724 --> 00:35:01,676 You're in the battery area. 751 00:35:01,711 --> 00:35:04,570 Go on, tell me what's going on. 752 00:35:04,605 --> 00:35:07,394 Getting fire missions. 753 00:35:07,429 --> 00:35:09,260 You're getting fire missions. 754 00:35:09,295 --> 00:35:11,056 Go on. 755 00:35:11,091 --> 00:35:13,828 You see everything now clearly. 756 00:35:13,863 --> 00:35:16,599 Getting shells thrown at us. 757 00:35:16,635 --> 00:35:18,365 You're getting shells thrown at you. 758 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,482 From where? 759 00:35:19,517 --> 00:35:20,531 Japs. 760 00:35:20,566 --> 00:35:22,667 Japs. Go on. 761 00:35:22,702 --> 00:35:24,700 Yes. 762 00:35:24,735 --> 00:35:26,664 Keep on. 763 00:35:26,699 --> 00:35:28,005 You remember it all now. 764 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,836 Every bit of it's coming back. 765 00:35:29,871 --> 00:35:31,667 Japs getting near us to get our position. 766 00:35:31,702 --> 00:35:35,705 Japs getting near you to get your position. 767 00:35:35,740 --> 00:35:38,110 Go on. 768 00:35:38,145 --> 00:35:40,972 Told us to get cover. 769 00:35:41,007 --> 00:35:43,308 Who told you to get cover? 770 00:35:43,343 --> 00:35:44,746 BC. 771 00:35:44,781 --> 00:35:46,346 BC. 772 00:35:46,381 --> 00:35:47,876 Go on. 773 00:35:47,911 --> 00:35:50,447 They spotted us. 774 00:35:50,482 --> 00:35:52,719 One of the boys got hurt. 775 00:35:52,754 --> 00:35:55,435 One of the boys got hurt. 776 00:35:55,470 --> 00:35:58,116 Took him away. 777 00:36:01,688 --> 00:36:02,783 Yes, go on. 778 00:36:02,818 --> 00:36:04,089 You remember it now. 779 00:36:04,124 --> 00:36:05,325 Tell me. 780 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:06,961 It's all right now, but you can tell me. 781 00:36:06,996 --> 00:36:09,244 You can tell me. 782 00:36:09,279 --> 00:36:11,136 Explosion. 783 00:36:11,171 --> 00:36:12,959 Yes. 784 00:36:12,994 --> 00:36:15,065 You remember the explosion now. 785 00:36:15,101 --> 00:36:17,861 All right, go on. 786 00:36:17,896 --> 00:36:20,192 They're carrying me. 787 00:36:20,228 --> 00:36:21,713 They're carrying you. 788 00:36:21,748 --> 00:36:23,239 Who's carrying you? 789 00:36:23,274 --> 00:36:24,695 I don't know. 790 00:36:24,730 --> 00:36:29,098 Where are they taking you? 791 00:36:29,133 --> 00:36:31,034 Carrying me across the field. 792 00:36:31,069 --> 00:36:32,435 Across the field. 793 00:36:32,470 --> 00:36:34,301 Go on. 794 00:36:34,336 --> 00:36:37,336 Put me on a stretcher. 795 00:36:37,371 --> 00:36:39,775 Yes? 796 00:36:39,810 --> 00:36:41,595 Yes? 797 00:36:41,630 --> 00:36:43,345 Go on. 798 00:36:43,380 --> 00:36:45,696 They're still throwing shells. 799 00:36:45,731 --> 00:36:48,013 Yes, can you hear them? 800 00:36:48,048 --> 00:36:49,408 Yes. 801 00:36:49,443 --> 00:36:50,994 You see them? 802 00:36:51,029 --> 00:36:52,510 No. 803 00:36:52,545 --> 00:36:53,551 All right. 804 00:36:53,586 --> 00:36:55,517 Where are they taking you now? 805 00:36:55,551 --> 00:36:56,869 In a truck. 806 00:36:58,188 --> 00:37:01,655 Why are you fearful now? 807 00:37:01,690 --> 00:37:03,616 I want no more of this. 808 00:37:03,651 --> 00:37:05,422 You don't want any more. 809 00:37:05,457 --> 00:37:06,758 No. 810 00:37:06,793 --> 00:37:08,218 You want to forget it. 811 00:37:08,253 --> 00:37:10,225 But you're going to remember it, because it's gone now. 812 00:37:10,260 --> 00:37:12,421 It's gone. 813 00:37:12,456 --> 00:37:14,077 You're back here now. 814 00:37:14,112 --> 00:37:15,697 You're away from Okinawa. 815 00:37:15,732 --> 00:37:17,293 You've forgotten it. 816 00:37:17,328 --> 00:37:19,159 But you remember who you are now. 817 00:37:19,194 --> 00:37:21,512 Who are you? 818 00:37:21,547 --> 00:37:23,796 Dali. 819 00:37:23,831 --> 00:37:25,562 Dali, that's right. 820 00:37:25,598 --> 00:37:27,329 Full name now. 821 00:37:27,364 --> 00:37:28,869 Dominic Dali. 822 00:37:28,904 --> 00:37:32,186 Dominic Dali, that's right. 823 00:37:32,221 --> 00:37:35,467 Know your mother's name? 824 00:37:35,502 --> 00:37:36,503 Isabel. 825 00:37:36,538 --> 00:37:38,089 That's right. 826 00:37:38,124 --> 00:37:39,605 Father's? 827 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:40,835 Salvatore. 828 00:37:40,870 --> 00:37:42,276 That's fine. 829 00:37:42,311 --> 00:37:44,643 You know who they all are now. 830 00:37:46,644 --> 00:37:48,615 All right, now you're coming back with us. 831 00:37:48,650 --> 00:37:50,783 This is going to stay with you. 832 00:37:50,818 --> 00:37:52,882 You're going to remember it all. 833 00:37:52,917 --> 00:37:55,343 You're going to remember about Okinawa. 834 00:37:55,378 --> 00:37:57,579 You're going to remember about the shells and the bombs, 835 00:37:57,614 --> 00:37:59,986 but they're gone. 836 00:38:00,021 --> 00:38:03,087 You're at ease, you're relaxed. 837 00:38:03,122 --> 00:38:06,119 There's no fear, no anxiety. 838 00:38:06,154 --> 00:38:07,955 When I wake you up, you'll be comfortable, relaxed, 839 00:38:07,990 --> 00:38:10,822 no pains, and no aches. 840 00:38:10,857 --> 00:38:13,058 But you'll remember all that I've told you, 841 00:38:13,093 --> 00:38:15,789 all that you've remembered. 842 00:38:15,824 --> 00:38:17,860 You can wake now. 843 00:38:24,394 --> 00:38:26,995 Well, how are you? 844 00:38:27,030 --> 00:38:29,562 Pretty good. 845 00:38:29,597 --> 00:38:31,548 Under the guidance of the psychiatrist, 846 00:38:31,583 --> 00:38:33,464 he is able to regard his experience 847 00:38:33,499 --> 00:38:36,270 in its true perspective as a thing of the past, 848 00:38:36,305 --> 00:38:38,701 which no longer threatens his safety. 849 00:38:38,736 --> 00:38:41,803 Now he can remember. 850 00:38:43,844 --> 00:38:47,046 Well, Hofmeister, what's your trouble? 851 00:38:54,209 --> 00:39:02,049 It's hard for me to get my words out. 852 00:39:02,084 --> 00:39:05,185 Yeah, it does seem to be a bit tough. 853 00:39:05,220 --> 00:39:06,851 How long have you had that trouble? 854 00:39:08,287 --> 00:39:19,623 It started about a month ago. 855 00:39:20,859 --> 00:39:22,029 Where were you then? 856 00:39:23,665 --> 00:39:27,893 I was in France. 857 00:39:27,928 --> 00:39:29,534 You were in France. 858 00:39:29,569 --> 00:39:31,170 Have you been in combat? 859 00:39:31,205 --> 00:39:32,535 Yes. 860 00:39:32,570 --> 00:39:34,651 Well, maybe we can help you talk a bit better, 861 00:39:34,686 --> 00:39:36,697 and you can tell me more about it then, right? 862 00:39:36,732 --> 00:39:40,534 Let's lie down and see if we can't help you on that. 863 00:39:40,569 --> 00:39:42,975 This man is not a chronic stutterer. 864 00:39:43,010 --> 00:39:44,471 He suffers from a battle tension 865 00:39:44,506 --> 00:39:47,778 which the drug will attempt to diminish. 866 00:39:47,813 --> 00:39:49,344 Like the man who could not walk 867 00:39:49,379 --> 00:39:51,680 and the man who could not remember, 868 00:39:51,715 --> 00:39:53,981 his illness has an emotional basis. 869 00:39:56,883 --> 00:39:58,879 Get all comfortable now, and relaxed. 870 00:39:58,914 --> 00:40:01,380 We're just going to give you some medicine here, 871 00:40:01,415 --> 00:40:05,117 and it's going to help limber up that tongue of yours. 872 00:40:05,152 --> 00:40:08,950 And this is going to make you feel a bit groggy. 873 00:40:19,525 --> 00:40:23,727 Well, now, tell me now, how do you feel now? 874 00:40:25,628 --> 00:40:27,259 Make any difference in your feeling? 875 00:40:27,294 --> 00:40:28,425 Boy, and how. 876 00:40:28,460 --> 00:40:29,530 It's just like seventh heaven. 877 00:40:29,566 --> 00:40:31,266 What is it? 878 00:40:31,302 --> 00:40:32,397 Tell me about it. 879 00:40:32,432 --> 00:40:36,128 Boy, I can talk. 880 00:40:36,163 --> 00:40:37,434 That's fine, isn't it? 881 00:40:37,469 --> 00:40:38,617 I can talk! 882 00:40:38,652 --> 00:40:39,730 I can talk! 883 00:40:39,765 --> 00:40:41,001 That's good, boy. 884 00:40:41,036 --> 00:40:43,172 Listen, I can talk! 885 00:40:43,207 --> 00:40:46,174 Oh, God, listen, I can talk! 886 00:40:46,209 --> 00:40:49,106 Holy Mother of God, listen! 887 00:40:49,141 --> 00:40:50,542 All right, it's coming back now. 888 00:40:50,577 --> 00:40:51,938 Take it easy. 889 00:40:51,973 --> 00:40:54,138 Oh, listen, I can talk! 890 00:40:54,173 --> 00:40:56,474 Just the way you always did, isn't that right? 891 00:40:57,715 --> 00:40:59,911 Listen. 892 00:40:59,946 --> 00:41:01,982 Oh, God, I can talk. 893 00:41:02,017 --> 00:41:04,169 Just the way you always did, Hofmeister. 894 00:41:04,204 --> 00:41:06,320 Why don't you try going with it now? 895 00:41:06,355 --> 00:41:08,046 Oh, nice! 896 00:41:08,081 --> 00:41:09,347 Let's take it easy now. 897 00:41:09,382 --> 00:41:11,188 Just talk just a little lightly now. 898 00:41:11,223 --> 00:41:13,423 Tell me, got any idea why you couldn't talk before? 899 00:41:13,458 --> 00:41:14,554 What's coming to your mind now? 900 00:41:16,755 --> 00:41:20,992 Tell me, what's coming to your mind now? 901 00:41:21,027 --> 00:41:25,360 What is it in your mind when you couldn't talk? 902 00:41:25,395 --> 00:41:27,996 What is it that stopped it? 903 00:41:28,032 --> 00:41:30,493 Something came through there and stopped it. 904 00:41:30,528 --> 00:41:31,559 What is it, now? 905 00:41:31,594 --> 00:41:33,093 Think quickly, think deeply. 906 00:41:33,128 --> 00:41:34,699 Let's go back. 907 00:41:34,734 --> 00:41:35,995 When was it you lost your speech, 908 00:41:36,030 --> 00:41:37,466 had your trouble talking? 909 00:41:37,501 --> 00:41:39,297 Go back quickly. 910 00:41:46,972 --> 00:41:51,503 Seems that I first noticed it on a boat. 911 00:41:51,538 --> 00:41:52,909 On a boat. 912 00:41:52,944 --> 00:41:54,470 Going over. 913 00:41:54,505 --> 00:41:57,457 It first started with an S. 914 00:41:57,492 --> 00:42:00,373 And the fellows laughed at me. 915 00:42:00,408 --> 00:42:04,551 I don't know why they laughed, until the guy started... 916 00:42:04,586 --> 00:42:06,184 Well, let's start with that S. 917 00:42:06,219 --> 00:42:07,801 Let's go back to that S now. 918 00:42:07,836 --> 00:42:09,510 What were you thinking then? 919 00:42:09,545 --> 00:42:11,184 What was in your mind then? 920 00:42:11,219 --> 00:42:12,516 Right now? 921 00:42:12,551 --> 00:42:13,780 No, then. 922 00:42:13,815 --> 00:42:15,051 On the boat? 923 00:42:15,086 --> 00:42:16,282 Yes, with that S. 924 00:42:16,317 --> 00:42:17,988 When you couldn't say S right. 925 00:42:18,023 --> 00:42:19,083 S. 926 00:42:24,021 --> 00:42:25,707 The port side. 927 00:42:25,742 --> 00:42:27,358 Port side. 928 00:42:27,393 --> 00:42:28,794 Port side. 929 00:42:30,195 --> 00:42:32,310 Port side of the ship. 930 00:42:32,345 --> 00:42:34,391 What side's that? 931 00:42:34,426 --> 00:42:36,312 That would be the left side. 932 00:42:36,347 --> 00:42:38,163 Left side, that's right. 933 00:42:38,198 --> 00:42:39,829 Yeah, I remember it. 934 00:42:40,129 --> 00:42:42,331 Because we were out there that afternoon, 935 00:42:42,366 --> 00:42:44,267 and we saw the fishes. 936 00:42:44,302 --> 00:42:47,088 And we had some flying fishes. 937 00:42:47,124 --> 00:42:49,840 And I came down, and I said... 938 00:42:49,875 --> 00:42:54,127 I was telling the fellow underneath me about the port... 939 00:42:54,162 --> 00:42:58,379 that I had seen some flying fishes on the port side. 940 00:43:00,310 --> 00:43:02,411 He tried telling them about the flying fishes, 941 00:43:02,446 --> 00:43:05,165 and he stumbled over the S sound. 942 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,885 And the fellows laughed at him. 943 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,051 Think hard, S, S. 944 00:43:10,086 --> 00:43:12,616 What does S remind him of? 945 00:43:12,651 --> 00:43:15,483 S, S. 946 00:43:15,518 --> 00:43:20,021 He remembers-- it is a sound he fears. 947 00:43:20,056 --> 00:43:21,992 A sound of death in combat. 948 00:43:26,254 --> 00:43:30,156 The sound of a German 88 high explosive shell coming in. 949 00:43:30,191 --> 00:43:32,062 Now it is possible to proceed 950 00:43:32,097 --> 00:43:35,058 to the basic method of psychiatric treatment-- 951 00:43:35,093 --> 00:43:36,624 discussion and understanding 952 00:43:36,659 --> 00:43:38,560 of the underlying causes of his symptom. 953 00:43:46,935 --> 00:43:50,001 As the weeks pass, the therapy begins to show its effect. 954 00:43:50,036 --> 00:43:53,068 The shock and stress of war are starting to wear off. 955 00:43:53,103 --> 00:43:54,604 For these men are blessed 956 00:43:54,639 --> 00:43:58,106 with the naturally regenerative powers of youth. 957 00:43:58,141 --> 00:44:01,343 Now they are living less in the past and more in the present. 958 00:44:01,378 --> 00:44:05,345 Sometimes they think of the future. 959 00:44:07,316 --> 00:44:08,982 The war years must be put aside, 960 00:44:09,017 --> 00:44:12,833 and the responsibilities of peace must be considered. 961 00:44:12,868 --> 00:44:16,611 A man might open a filling station, or a hardware store. 962 00:44:16,646 --> 00:44:20,353 Or he can buy a few acres of land and raise some chickens. 963 00:44:20,388 --> 00:44:22,524 He might even go back to school. 964 00:44:31,688 --> 00:44:34,325 Visitors day. 965 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,192 Now the men resume their contact with the world outside. 966 00:44:38,227 --> 00:44:40,363 These are the people they are coming back to, 967 00:44:40,398 --> 00:44:43,265 whose lives are bound up with theirs. 968 00:44:43,300 --> 00:44:44,661 Without their understanding, 969 00:44:44,696 --> 00:44:46,597 all that has been accomplished in the last few weeks 970 00:44:46,632 --> 00:44:48,203 can be torn down. 971 00:44:48,238 --> 00:44:52,239 With it, their return to life can be doubly swift and sure. 972 00:44:58,743 --> 00:45:01,605 Classes in group psychotherapy continue. 973 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,206 The men are thinking of themselves 974 00:45:03,241 --> 00:45:05,142 in relation to society. 975 00:45:05,177 --> 00:45:07,778 How will they fit into the postwar pattern? 976 00:45:07,813 --> 00:45:10,144 How will the world receive them? 977 00:45:10,179 --> 00:45:13,080 You fellows have had an opportunity 978 00:45:13,115 --> 00:45:14,776 to be home with your families 979 00:45:14,811 --> 00:45:17,353 since you've returned from overseas. 980 00:45:17,388 --> 00:45:20,350 Have you noticed any change 981 00:45:20,385 --> 00:45:23,016 in the various members of your family toward you, 982 00:45:23,051 --> 00:45:24,982 and their reactions toward you? 983 00:45:25,017 --> 00:45:27,884 Well, I found out after four years of absence 984 00:45:27,919 --> 00:45:33,261 that it only took me the second day to be really relaxed, 985 00:45:33,296 --> 00:45:35,810 and I was right chummy again with my dad, 986 00:45:35,845 --> 00:45:38,324 and we talked about the old neighborhood 987 00:45:38,359 --> 00:45:40,826 and the new changes. 988 00:45:40,861 --> 00:45:42,594 I don't know. 989 00:45:42,629 --> 00:45:44,293 It surprised me. 990 00:45:44,328 --> 00:45:45,928 Do you feel that your family has to be taught 991 00:45:45,964 --> 00:45:47,900 how to treat you when you come back? 992 00:45:47,935 --> 00:45:49,795 No, absolutely not. 993 00:45:49,830 --> 00:45:52,036 How do you want to be treated by family? 994 00:45:52,071 --> 00:45:54,703 The same I was treated before I went into the service, 995 00:45:54,738 --> 00:45:56,098 no different. 996 00:45:56,133 --> 00:45:57,334 You don't want to be treated any differently? 997 00:45:57,369 --> 00:45:58,840 No. 998 00:45:58,875 --> 00:46:01,542 I was talking to one man, and I said, 999 00:46:01,577 --> 00:46:03,938 "What do you think of us fellows that come back 1000 00:46:03,973 --> 00:46:06,905 with Psychoneurosis Anxiety State?" 1001 00:46:06,940 --> 00:46:09,840 And I says, "You can see that we're not crazy, by any means." 1002 00:46:09,875 --> 00:46:13,059 And he says, "Well, before I came out here to see you," 1003 00:46:13,094 --> 00:46:16,244 he says, "my first impression was like in Bellevue." 1004 00:46:16,279 --> 00:46:18,445 He said, "The fellows from the last war there 1005 00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,151 are completely maniacs." 1006 00:46:20,186 --> 00:46:21,817 He said, "That was my first impression." 1007 00:46:21,852 --> 00:46:23,713 And I'm wondering if, I mean, 1008 00:46:23,748 --> 00:46:26,790 the great percentage of the people are going to be like that 1009 00:46:26,825 --> 00:46:28,655 when we get out. 1010 00:46:28,690 --> 00:46:31,317 That is a common concern 1011 00:46:31,352 --> 00:46:35,194 among servicemen who have developed nervous conditions 1012 00:46:35,229 --> 00:46:38,221 during their stay in the Army, 1013 00:46:38,256 --> 00:46:41,958 as to what the public is going to think about them. 1014 00:46:41,993 --> 00:46:45,677 Undoubtedly there will be people on the outside 1015 00:46:45,712 --> 00:46:49,326 who won't have any understanding of the condition, 1016 00:46:49,361 --> 00:46:52,803 who may think of it as being a rather shameful condition. 1017 00:46:52,838 --> 00:46:56,438 That's why we're having an educational program, 1018 00:46:56,473 --> 00:47:00,038 trying to education the public into understanding. 1019 00:47:00,073 --> 00:47:02,204 Unfortunately, most of you fellows 1020 00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,941 have gone through some very severe stresses in the army, 1021 00:47:05,976 --> 00:47:09,524 stresses that civilians are rarely subjected to. 1022 00:47:09,559 --> 00:47:13,074 In civilian life, you can avoid serious stresses. 1023 00:47:13,109 --> 00:47:15,863 If a civilian, the average civilian, 1024 00:47:15,898 --> 00:47:18,408 were subjected to similar stresses, 1025 00:47:18,443 --> 00:47:20,431 he undoubtedly would have developed 1026 00:47:20,466 --> 00:47:22,274 the same type of nervous condition 1027 00:47:22,309 --> 00:47:24,046 that most of you fellows developed. 1028 00:47:24,081 --> 00:47:27,822 All of us have our so-called breaking point. 1029 00:47:27,857 --> 00:47:30,548 And our survey outside showed that 1030 00:47:30,583 --> 00:47:34,786 civilians on the whole were more nervous than soldiers. 1031 00:47:34,821 --> 00:47:36,752 On Park Avenue, for instance, 1032 00:47:36,787 --> 00:47:40,009 where some of your richest people live, 1033 00:47:40,044 --> 00:47:43,231 most of the patients are people who suffer 1034 00:47:43,266 --> 00:47:45,097 from nervous disorders. 1035 00:47:45,132 --> 00:47:47,927 And if the doctor won't give them a pill, why, 1036 00:47:47,962 --> 00:47:50,564 they'll go out and say, "Well, he's not a good doctor." 1037 00:47:50,599 --> 00:47:52,065 So therefore they're given pills, 1038 00:47:52,100 --> 00:47:53,618 and they take them at home. 1039 00:47:53,653 --> 00:47:55,102 They take these pills at home 1040 00:47:55,137 --> 00:47:56,663 because the hospitals are too full. 1041 00:47:56,698 --> 00:47:58,799 If the hospitals were empty, they'd be in a sanitarium 1042 00:47:58,834 --> 00:48:01,705 or so forth. 1043 00:48:01,740 --> 00:48:03,867 Having been through a number of these discussions, 1044 00:48:03,902 --> 00:48:09,044 like the other men have, I know that we have learned the basis 1045 00:48:09,079 --> 00:48:10,877 of how we've gotten nervous. 1046 00:48:10,912 --> 00:48:12,641 Some of us through combat, 1047 00:48:12,676 --> 00:48:15,372 and some of us by not being in combat. 1048 00:48:15,407 --> 00:48:17,779 And I think... and I'm sure that we have a better understanding 1049 00:48:17,814 --> 00:48:21,098 of our conditions, and I'm pretty grateful of being here 1050 00:48:21,133 --> 00:48:24,383 at Mason General Hospital, like a lot of fellows are. 1051 00:48:24,418 --> 00:48:26,483 It just so happens I couldn't walk. 1052 00:48:26,518 --> 00:48:28,119 And they made me walk. 1053 00:48:28,154 --> 00:48:29,380 I couldn't walk when I arrived, 1054 00:48:29,415 --> 00:48:31,336 and I was here 24 hours, and they made me walk. 1055 00:48:31,371 --> 00:48:34,244 I feel pretty grateful for getting my limbs back. 1056 00:48:34,279 --> 00:48:37,084 But that's what I'm driving at, is that I know 1057 00:48:37,119 --> 00:48:41,922 that when I get out of here, and the other fellows do too, 1058 00:48:41,957 --> 00:48:47,126 we're going to try our best to make ourselves as best we can. 1059 00:48:47,161 --> 00:48:52,297 And we feel more confident to grasp this nervous situation 1060 00:48:52,332 --> 00:48:54,615 that's come about us, and we want to show people 1061 00:48:54,650 --> 00:48:56,861 that we can do things on our own on the outside, 1062 00:48:56,896 --> 00:48:59,036 whether we've been in a hospital for nerves, 1063 00:48:59,071 --> 00:49:01,032 or wherever we've been, whether we've lost an arm or a leg, 1064 00:49:01,067 --> 00:49:03,799 that we can be just as good as anybody else. 1065 00:49:03,834 --> 00:49:07,875 All I want is that they give us a chance to prove our equality, 1066 00:49:07,910 --> 00:49:09,141 like they said they were. 1067 00:49:09,176 --> 00:49:10,336 And I hope they keep their promise. 1068 00:49:10,371 --> 00:49:11,772 That's all I hope. 1069 00:49:11,807 --> 00:49:15,910 Would you make it a point to tell your employer 1070 00:49:15,945 --> 00:49:17,776 that you were a psychoneurotic? 1071 00:49:17,811 --> 00:49:19,877 Well, if he's an intelligent man, 1072 00:49:19,912 --> 00:49:24,585 which most well-known employers are, that own large concerns, 1073 00:49:24,620 --> 00:49:26,850 why he's going to react 1074 00:49:26,885 --> 00:49:29,101 the same as any other normal human being would. 1075 00:49:29,136 --> 00:49:31,318 He's going to say, "It's absolutely plausible, 1076 00:49:31,353 --> 00:49:34,149 and the man right now looks all right. 1077 00:49:34,184 --> 00:49:35,485 I'll try him out." 1078 00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,916 But you may run into employers 1079 00:49:37,951 --> 00:49:40,723 who are not that broad minded, or intelligent. 1080 00:49:40,758 --> 00:49:41,919 Yes, sir. 1081 00:49:41,954 --> 00:49:43,555 And I'll sell myself to them. 1082 00:49:43,590 --> 00:49:45,120 How about you, Hofmeister? 1083 00:49:45,155 --> 00:49:46,420 Do you have any plans about jobs, 1084 00:49:46,455 --> 00:49:48,527 or do you have any fears about getting a job? 1085 00:49:48,562 --> 00:49:49,792 I have no fear whatsoever. 1086 00:49:49,827 --> 00:49:51,728 I've got my job waiting for me, sir. 1087 00:49:51,763 --> 00:49:53,595 You have your job waiting for you. 1088 00:49:53,630 --> 00:49:55,501 I think it comes down to this, doesn't it-- 1089 00:49:55,536 --> 00:49:57,297 that most of you fellows feel 1090 00:49:57,332 --> 00:49:59,768 that you ought to be honest with your employer, 1091 00:49:59,803 --> 00:50:04,535 that you have nothing to hide, nothing to be ashamed of? 1092 00:50:04,570 --> 00:50:06,506 Isn't that the general attitude? Yes, sir. 1093 00:50:06,541 --> 00:50:08,472 That's the way all the men feel. 1094 00:50:08,507 --> 00:50:11,789 Your time in the service was not entirely wasted. 1095 00:50:11,824 --> 00:50:14,818 You have learned a great deal in the service. 1096 00:50:14,853 --> 00:50:17,448 For instance, a great many jobs and tasks 1097 00:50:17,483 --> 00:50:20,009 that you've learned to do in the service 1098 00:50:20,044 --> 00:50:23,146 that you'll have had absolutely no contact with in the past. 1099 00:50:23,181 --> 00:50:25,463 You've also learned to work in groups, 1100 00:50:25,498 --> 00:50:27,747 something that every soldier learns to do 1101 00:50:27,782 --> 00:50:30,884 very early in his military career. 1102 00:50:30,919 --> 00:50:33,581 This definitely will be of much value to you 1103 00:50:33,616 --> 00:50:37,653 in your future civilian employment. 1104 00:50:42,126 --> 00:50:44,351 The weeks have slipped by fast. 1105 00:50:44,386 --> 00:50:46,127 The first strangeness of hospital life 1106 00:50:46,162 --> 00:50:48,123 has become routine. 1107 00:50:48,158 --> 00:50:51,710 Sometimes a man learns something new. 1108 00:50:51,745 --> 00:50:55,262 Deranger always did want to play guitar. 1109 00:51:35,584 --> 00:51:38,020 And now the days begin to seem long. 1110 00:51:38,055 --> 00:51:39,786 There's the old healthy sound of bellyaching in the air-- 1111 00:51:39,821 --> 00:51:43,083 "Spinach, spinach again." 1112 00:51:43,117 --> 00:51:46,724 And, "How about a good movie for a change?" 1113 00:51:46,759 --> 00:51:51,392 And, "How about putting some ice cream in the ice cream soda?" 1114 00:51:51,427 --> 00:51:54,389 No longer is a man shut up 1115 00:51:54,424 --> 00:51:57,260 within the lonely recesses of himself. 1116 00:51:57,295 --> 00:51:59,792 He is breaking out of his prison into life-- 1117 00:51:59,827 --> 00:52:04,269 the life that lies ahead, offering infinite possibilities 1118 00:52:04,304 --> 00:52:06,765 for happiness and sorrow. 1119 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,517 How does a man find happiness? 1120 00:52:09,552 --> 00:52:11,813 Is there a secret to discover? 1121 00:52:11,848 --> 00:52:14,677 What is the mysterious ingredient 1122 00:52:14,712 --> 00:52:16,994 that gives joy and meaning to living? 1123 00:52:17,029 --> 00:52:19,704 You know in the Bible where it says, 1124 00:52:19,739 --> 00:52:22,344 "Man does not live by bread alone"? 1125 00:52:22,379 --> 00:52:26,711 Children don't grow up well without safety and confidence. 1126 00:52:26,746 --> 00:52:31,080 If that wasn't in one's childhood, in growing up, 1127 00:52:31,115 --> 00:52:35,416 you could say, "Now, there's something missing 1128 00:52:35,451 --> 00:52:38,082 during all that time." 1129 00:52:38,117 --> 00:52:41,319 And the next question is how to supply it. 1130 00:52:41,354 --> 00:52:44,385 And it does need to be supplied. 1131 00:52:44,420 --> 00:52:48,357 Not all of the learning in all of the books 1132 00:52:48,392 --> 00:52:52,294 is half as valuable in getting over nervousness 1133 00:52:52,329 --> 00:52:55,844 as to find someone that you esteem, 1134 00:52:55,879 --> 00:52:59,324 that you can learn to feel safe with, 1135 00:52:59,359 --> 00:53:04,431 where you can get a feeling of being accepted, or cherished, 1136 00:53:04,466 --> 00:53:07,162 where you get a feeling that you're worthwhile, 1137 00:53:07,197 --> 00:53:10,399 and that you're important to someone. 1138 00:53:10,434 --> 00:53:14,201 You could say the feeding that you didn't get, 1139 00:53:14,236 --> 00:53:17,938 that something more than bread, when you were little, 1140 00:53:17,973 --> 00:53:19,834 you still need to get it. 1141 00:53:19,869 --> 00:53:23,841 You still need to be fed with acceptance, 1142 00:53:23,876 --> 00:53:26,437 and to find the safety. 1143 00:53:26,472 --> 00:53:30,215 In other words, knowledge alone is not enough. 1144 00:53:36,048 --> 00:53:37,919 Home, Sarge! Home, home! 1145 00:53:37,954 --> 00:53:40,781 Nobody got it. 1146 00:53:41,720 --> 00:53:42,886 Get up, get up! 1147 00:53:42,921 --> 00:53:45,322 Get up, get up and go around! 1148 00:53:48,584 --> 00:53:50,805 Eight weeks have passed. 1149 00:53:50,841 --> 00:53:52,992 What about these men? 1150 00:53:53,027 --> 00:53:57,244 Are they ready for discharge? 1151 00:53:57,279 --> 00:54:01,461 How complete is their recovery? 1152 00:54:07,094 --> 00:54:10,531 How about the boy in right field? 1153 00:54:10,566 --> 00:54:13,338 I just didn't care what happened to me. 1154 00:54:18,801 --> 00:54:20,502 How about the kid at bat? 1155 00:54:22,342 --> 00:54:25,709 Foxhole was covered by dirt. 1156 00:54:25,744 --> 00:54:28,976 I was covered up for 29 hours afterwards, until they found me. 1157 00:54:35,650 --> 00:54:37,851 He's out, he's out! 1158 00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:52,859 Out! Joe, you're out. 1159 00:54:52,894 --> 00:54:53,959 Joe, you're out. 1160 00:54:56,491 --> 00:54:58,462 How about the umpire? 1161 00:55:01,623 --> 00:55:07,396 Hard for me to get my words out. 1162 00:55:09,267 --> 00:55:10,628 You're out, go on! 1163 00:55:10,663 --> 00:55:11,729 Batter up. 1164 00:55:13,500 --> 00:55:14,870 How about this kid? 1165 00:55:23,174 --> 00:55:24,475 How about him? 1166 00:55:42,084 --> 00:55:44,310 Are they well enough to be discharged? 1167 00:55:45,346 --> 00:55:47,788 That is for the doctors to decide at tomorrow's boarding. 1168 00:55:59,924 --> 00:56:01,895 The answer is yes. 1169 00:56:23,967 --> 00:56:27,118 Men, this is your last military formation. 1170 00:56:27,153 --> 00:56:30,270 Today you are returning to your homes, 1171 00:56:30,305 --> 00:56:32,837 your families, and friends. 1172 00:56:32,872 --> 00:56:36,074 Many of you have been looking forward eagerly to this day. 1173 00:56:36,109 --> 00:56:38,842 But remember that when you reenter civilian life, 1174 00:56:38,877 --> 00:56:41,576 on your shoulders falls much of the responsibility 1175 00:56:41,611 --> 00:56:44,042 for the postwar world. 1176 00:56:44,077 --> 00:56:45,743 May your lives as civilians 1177 00:56:45,778 --> 00:56:48,765 be as worthy as your records as soldiers. 1178 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,752 Good health, good fortune, and Godspeed.