All language subtitles for Let There Be Light, 1946_(video-avc1_sans-audio)_1920x1080_24fps_2650kbps.eng

[music playing]

NARRATOR: The guns
are quiet now.

The papers of peace
have been signs.

And the oceans of the Earth are
filled with ships coming home.

In faraway places, men
dreamed of this moment.

But for some men the moment is
very different from the dream.

Here is human salvage.

The final result of
all that metal and fire

can do to violate mortal flesh.

Somewhere the bandages
of their pain--

the crutches, the
bandages, the splints.

Others show no outward signs,
yet they too, are wounded.

This hospital is one of the
many for the care and treatment

of the psycho-neurotic soldier.

These are the casualties of the
spirit-- the troubled in mine.

Men who are damaged emotionally.

Born and bred in peace,
educated to hate war.

They were overnight plunged into
sudden and terrible situations.

Every man has his
breaking point.

And these, in the fulfillment
of their duties as soldiers,

were forced beyond the
limit of human endurance.

At ease, men.

On behalf of the
Commanding Officer

and his staff at the
Mason General Hospital,

I want to extend a hearty
welcome to all of you

on your return to
the United States.

There's no need to be alarmed
at the presence of these cameras

as they're making a photographic
record of your progress

at this hospital from
the date of admission

to the date of discharge.

NARRATOR: Here are men who
tremble, men who cannot sleep.

Men with pains that are
nonetheless real because they

are of mental origin.

Men who cannot remember.

Paralyzed man whose paralysis
is dictated by the mind.

However different the
symptoms, these things

they have in common.

Unceasing fear and apprehension,
a sense of impending disaster,

a feeling of hopelessness
and utter isolation.

INTAKE OFFICER: May I
have your last name?

NARRATOR: The
psychiatrists listen

to the stories of the men who
tell them as best they can.

The names and places
are different.

The circumstances are different.

But through all the
stories runs one thread--

death and the fear of death.

And then after you got
wounded, what happened?

Same thing, only worse?

Um.

Seemed like the nervousness was
getting worse all of a sudden.

PSYCHIATRIST: Did
they get worse?

These nerve
things-- they bombed.

I got killing [inaudible].

NARRATOR: You nearly got killed.

Where were you at the time?

St. Laurent, I believe.

PSYCHIATRIST: Keep going.

Somewhere there.

Somewhere-- I don't remember.

PSYCHIATRIST: And what--
what were you doing

when the planes came over?

I was in a hole.

PSYCHIATRIST: Do you
know where you are now?

I think I'm in the States now.

They told me I was coming back.

But they told me I
was going to die.

At the hospital I
wouldn't eat hardly.

I was sick, and I wouldn't
eat hardly too much.

I was going to die
if I didn't eat.

I couldn't help it.

PSYCHIATRIST: Well.

Told me that they didn't
care whether I died or not.

We will see that you won't die.

You won't die.

Well, I lost my
last buddy up there.

Little Norman.

He was Second Scout.

I was First Scout and it
was all mixed up there.

They were shelling us.

Well, did that
make you nervous?

I-- I should of been.

I'm First Scout and I should
have been out in front.

And he went out and I
started right after him.

And he got shot.

And he-- he-- just
said, that gun hit me.

Fell to my feet.

And I started to
call for the medic.

And I went back to see if
we could get the Medic,

and there wasn't any.

I started to go
out after him again

and they wouldn't let me go.

And he was the last one of the
original boys who was with me.

Him and I were the last two left,
out of the original.

And when you wereshelled, how did you feel?

Well, I don't know.

It's just after Norman
got hurt-- got killed--

I was all right when we
were moving up or attacked

or anything like that.

But when we'd get pinned
down I'd just start thinking

about hitting Liam back there.

And how do you feel
when you think about him?

How would you feel?

I just didn't care
what happened to me.

PSYCHIATRIST: Do you
mean you didn't want

to go back into combat again?

Yes sir.

I wanted to go back.

I wanted to stay there.

I wanted to keep on for
him and all the other guys.

Norm, John, and Striker,
and Tex, and Popper--

And how do you feel right now?

I feel all right.

PSYCHIATRIST: How are
you getting along?

Well, fairly well, sir.

PSYCHIATRIST: Mm-hmm.
You were overseas?

Yes sir.

PSYCHIATRIST: Where?

Uh, we were in France and
then we went to Germany.

PSYCHIATRIST: Where?

France to Germany.

PSYCHIATRIST: And what
outfit were you in?

I was in Headquarters
Attachment, 5th Headquarter

Base of Battalion Mobile.

PSYCHIATRIST: Mm-hmm.

I see a VRC at present.

Uh, you had to go to hospital.

Sir?

PSYCHIATRIST: You had
to go to hospital.

Twice, sir.

It says here on your
record from overseas

that you had headaches and
that you had crying spells.

SOLIDER: Yes, sir.

Uh, I believe in your profession
it is called nostalgia.

PSYCHIATRIST:
Otherwise, homesick?

Yes sir.

It was endorsed while
shot before the war.

I received a picture
of my sweetheart--

PSYCHIATRIST: Yes?

SOLIDER: I'm sorry.

I can't go through it.

That's all right.

SOLIDER: Yes sir.

Come on.

Sit down a minute.

Now this display of
emotion is all right.

I'm not doing this
deliberately, sir.

PSYCHIATRIST: Of course not.

I believe you.

I do believe you.

Um, this display of emotion
is sometimes very helpful.

I hope so, sir.

PSYCHIATRIST: Good.

Gets it off your chest.

You wouldn't-- you
wouldn't be here.

You wouldn't have been
returned as a patient

if there wasn't
something upsetting you.

Yes sir.

PSYCHIATRIST: Now you
say you had received

a letter from your, um--

Not a letter, sir.
A photograph.

PSYCHIATRIST: A photograph, yes.

What about that now?

Well sir, to be
perfectly honest with you,

I'm very much in love
with my sweetheart.

She has been the one person that
gave me a sense of importance.

It was that though her
cooperation with me,

we were able to surmount
so many obstacles.

PSYCHIATRIST: What happened?

Well, when I was in
combat in [inaudible]--

PSYCHIATRIST: Can
you speak louder?

I'm having trouble hearing you.

Yes sir.

During that time, I got
word that my brother-- he

was killed in Mindanao.

PSYCHIATRIST: What
was he-- a marine?

Yes.

Now, I notice a necessary
testary here that you

saw a vision of your brother.

What, uh-- tell me
something about that.

What-- what happened?

Well, I guess it was a dream.

PSYCHIATRIST: Well,
describe the dream.

What-- what did you
see in the dream?

I-- I dreamt that I was home,
my brother was home,

my other brother was home.

We were all home.

PSYCHIATRIST: All
of you were home.

Sitting around the table.

I always wanted to be happy.

We were laughing,
you know-- talking.

Just admiring each other
-- and then it ended.

You could see these
images clearly?

Yes.

It was like in a dream, see?

PSYCHIATRIST: Yeah.

What about this Mindanao thing?

Eh, you tell me about it.

Well in Mindanao after I got
that moonshine, I was, I admit,

I was scared.

PSYCHIATRIST: You were scared.

I-- I don't know.

I'd-- sometimes I'd hope
something would happen.

Then again I'd say, well,
something did happen.

PSYCHIATRIST: What do you mean
by something happened.

You mean you were hoping
you'd be wounded and sent back?

Is that what you mean?

No.

PSYCHIATRIST: What
do you mean by that?

I meant that I--
I hoped that-- just

I was always so disgusted
and tired of everything.

I just didn't feel like living.

And then I'd change my mind.

I'd think back on my folks.

It would be a double blow.

If something happened to me,
I'll be standing guard.

Sitting on a machine gun.

Watching.

And then I'd hear a
little noise and I'd

let go shoot with nothing
[inaudible] than animals.

PSYCHIATRIST: And you'd know
it would make a sound,

and you'd just shoot?

At that time, yes.

Well, do you feel worried
about anything now?

Uh, I don't know.

PSYCHIATRIST: Are you mixed up?

Yeah.

What's that pin on your shirt?

My heart.

PSYCHIATRIST: Well, why
do you cover those up?

Aren't you proud of them?

Yes sir.

PSYCHIATRIST: You got a purple heart,
your campaign ribbons?

Yes sir.

PSYCHIATRIST: Well why
do you cover them up?

There must be some reason
for you doing that.

No.

Well, what happened over there?

Well we got in a scrape and
I was in the house there, checked

out for guard until the end.

It was Friday the 13th
and swept it out all day.

Patrol came up and [inaudible].

And they shot a [inaudible]
thrust through a wall.

Well--

PSYCHIATRIST: Then what?

I-- I was laying on the couch
the night before it happened

and I felt a little jittery.

So I laid down on the floor.

When I got up again,
the couch was all torn.

PSYCHIATRIST: You were
all afield, was that it?

Um.

Most of them must have
gone right over my head.

Do you feel conscious?

That is, are you
aware of the fact

that you are not the
same boy that you

were when you went over?

Do you feel changed?

Yes, sir.

PSYCHIATRIST: In what way?

Uh-- um.

More choppy.

PSYCHIATRIST: How
about with people?

I used to--

PSYCHIATRIST: Hmm?

I used to always
like to have fun.

I used to always
be going places.

I don't do nothing no more.

PSYCHIATRIST: How long
were you overseas?

[stuttering] Eleven months.

PSYCHIATRIST: Eleven months.

Were you in combat at all?

[stuttering] Six months.

I tried, uh, every way
to keep my mind occupied.

Reading, going to the
gymnasium, getting uh--

going out with the fellers and
trying to become and extrovert.

Trying to get out of myself.

But it seemed to me that
I got worse and worse.

And uh, after a while
I developed a fear of insanity.

I developed fears
of different sorts.

PSYCHIATRIST: Did you ever have
similar pains before you got

deployed.

Never in my life.

PSYCHIATRIST: OK.

Have you ever been
nervous before?

No sir.

Never.

I was a sullen man.

PSYCHIATRIST: Do sudden noises
bother you particularly?

--[stuttering] I just
sh- shake a little.

But not that b-bad.

Well I guess I just
got tired of living.

You could put it that way.

I had trouble sleeping, yes.

Had-- dreaming of
combat, you know.

I just took off.

Because I see too many
of my buddies gone

and I figured the
next one was for me.

A man can just stand
so much of that, see?

NARRATOR: Admission note.

Transfer diagnosis.

Anxiety reaction.

Sever.

Active symptoms in remission.

On this, their firstnight back in the States,

each man who is able
may make a long distance call

without cost.

After months and
years of silence,

familiar voices are
heard once again.

Then each man makes for himself
a small home which will be his

for the 8 or 10 weeks to come.

Now in the darkness
of the ward, emerged

the shapes born of darkness.

The terror of things
happened and remembered.

Dreams of battle, the
torments of uncertainty,

and fear, and loneliness.

[bugle horn]

NARRATOR: The day begins with
an early morning ward inspection.

The medical officer
in charge checks

the condition of every man.

Modern psychiatry
makes no sharp division

between the mind and the body.

Physical ills often
have psychic causes.

Just as emotional ills
may have a physical basis.

Possibilities of organic
disturbance in the brain

are investigated by meansof the electron serigraph.

The Rorschach test-- the things
that the patient's imagination

sees in these cards
gives significant clues

to his personality makeup.

SOLIDER: This looks
sort of like a drawing

of two women standing on
a rock and waving their hands.

NARRATOR: This man is suffering
from a conversion hysteria

and requires
immediate treatment.

Organically sound,
his paralysis is as real

as if it were called
by a spinal lesion,

but it is purely psychological.

DOCTOR: Well just sit him
upon the middle of the bed there.

SOLIDER: Feel free to it.

DOCTOR: That's fine.

Now sit yourself over there.

DOCTOR: Now, uh-- can you
move over just a little

so I can talk to you?

Yes sir.

DOCTOR: Now what is the trouble?

What's that?

That's the nerves.

It makes my flesh like that.

DOCTOR: I see.

How long has that been going on?

Since Friday.
DOCTOR: Friday?

It's going numb.

DOCTOR: Come on
suddenly or gradually?

Suddenly, sir.

DOCTOR: How?

Well it started in the
afternoon in the car,

I suppose.
DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

And I felt something funny
in my shoulders here.

Back bothered me.

I just started crying.

I wasn't in control of
my legs and my arms.

DOCTOR: Was there any reason
for crying spells?

I don't know, sir.

DOCTOR: Hmm?

Anything happen at
home to bother you?

Well, my mother's been ill.

DOCTOR: She has been ill.

That worry you a lot?

Quite a bit.

DOCTOR: Well now, has
this got anything to do

with your mother's illness?

Any reason why you should have
that kind of reaction?

No sir.

Not that I know of.

Unless my mother's illness
might have brought this on.

DOCTOR: I see.

I try to hold in
my hurts, but--

DOCTOR: I see.

You've just been
holding these things in?

That's right, sir.

DOCTOR: No way you can
control this at all?

No sir.

Well now we're going
to have to help you do.

SOLIDER: Of course.

DOCTOR: Let's take
off this jacket here.

Just slip that off.

All right.

Now lie down on the bed.

Shoes?

DOCTOR: No, we leave the shoes on
so you can walk in them.

We're going to get you walking.

Let's come over here.

That's a boy.

That's fine.

That's good.

Now you lie steady.

Lie steady, that's a boy.

This is all going to go away
as I give you this medice.

It'll be no bother at all.

NARRATOR: The
method employed here

is effective in certain
types of acute cases.

An intravenous injection
of sodium amytal

induces a state
similar to hypnosis.

SOLIDER: What a torpedo that is.

Do you mind if I look this way?

DOCTOR: You look that way.

Nothing for you to watch here.

But you're going to talk
to me as we go along.

Yes sir.

DOCTOR: That's all.

Now you're not going to feel
much of anything else.

You're going to feel
a little bit woozy.

NARRATOR: The use of this drug
serves a twofold purpose.

Like hypnosis, it is a shortcut
to the unconscious mind.

As a surgeon probes
for a bullet,

the psychiatrist explores
a submerged regions of the mind.

Attempting to locate
and bring to the surface

the emotional conflict
which is the cause

of the patient's distress.

The second purpose
of this drug is

to remove through suggestion
those symptoms which

impede the patient's recovery.

DOCTOR: Now tell me a little bit
about what you're thinking of.

Nothing--

DOCTOR: No thoughts are
coming to your mind now?

Nothing in particular.

DOCTOR: Well now let's go back.

Let's go back to Friday.

Friday?

DOCTOR: Yeah.

Think about that.

Friday.

My mother argues with me.

DOCTOR: Your mother
argues with you.

Yeah.

DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

What does she argue about?

Every little thing.

If you Sit down in the wrong chair
or something like that.

Doesn't like the stuff
you get at the store.

DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

And then she calms down.

DOCTOR: I see.

Have you always
tried to please her?

Yes.

DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

Always tried to please her.

I used to clean the
house for her and--

DOCTOR: Well then why do think
she argues like that?

Cause she's sick?

Well, she doesn't try to control
her temper, you know?

DOCTOR: I see.

Mm-hmm.

How about your father?

He's a swell guy.

DOCTOR: He's a swell feller.

He's kind of hot tempered.

Since my mother's
been sick, it's

been costing a lot of money.

DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

And he's lost a lot
of weight worrying--

DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

I see.

My mother argues with him.

She wants to know
where the money is.

DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

But I don't care about that
as long as everything

turns out alright.

DOCTOR: Well now I
wonder-- this jumping?

What does that
make you think of?

Think about it a minutes.

I can't help it.

It just jumps.

DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

How about the legs?

Do you know anybody
that had any trouble with their legs

like that?
-No sir.

Except--

DOCTOR: What does it
make you think of?

Come on.

Several years ago--

DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

There was one feller
that he had something

wrong with his right leg.

DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

Warm underneath, but
he's walking today.

That hasn't bothered me at all.

DOCTOR: Was that
anything like your leg?

No, he couldn't walk at all.

DOCTOR: He couldn't walk at all?-No.

DOCTOR: What do you think of
when can't walk like that?

I wish I could walk.

DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

Well what do you think of?

What comes to your mind
when you find that you can't walk?

Maybe I think my mother
and father should be OK.

Sometimes I wonder--
hope the war ends soon,

things like that.

Nothing in particular.

DOCTOR: Mm-hmm.

Now the shakes are
done now, haven't they?

Yeah.

DOCTOR: How about your legs?

They're good and strong.

Move them, let's raise them.

Well I don't see
them raising before.

But I can't walk.

DOCTOR: How about them now?

They feel all right.

DOCTOR: They feel good now,
as if you can walk in them,

don't they?
-Toes feel numb.

DOCTOR: Toes feel numb?

But that's going away, isn't it?

Yeah.

See--

DOCTOR: Raising
them fine, isn't it?

Yeah.

DOCTOR: Now you're going
to be able to walk, aren't you?

I don't know.

DOCTOR: Well you're
going to, aren't you?

Yes sir.

DOCTOR: All right.

I want to walk I love walking.

DOCTOR: You love walking?
-I did.

DOCTOR: Always been
very fond of walking.

Now you've found
yourself unable to walk.

Well now you're going to
get right up and walk.

Right now.

All right, now let's sit up.

Sit up on the side of the bed.

Here you are.

That's fine.

All Right, now stand up.

And look at that.

Now walk here.

Walk over to the
nurse, all by yourself.

That's a boy.

Walk over to the nurse.

You're just a little woozy,
that's the medicine.

Now come back to me.

Come back to me.

Open your eyes.

That's the boy.

Now isn't that wonderful?

PATIENT: Oh, sure.
DOCTOR: All right, now again.

Once more.

PATIENT: Yeah, but I want it
always to be there.

DOCTOR: Oh, it's going
to stay that way.

It's going to stay
because that's taking

care of your worries now.

All right, now
come on back to me

and I'm going to
let you go to sleep.

And when you wake up,
you'll keep on walking perfectly well.

How about it?

PATIENT: Thanks, sir.

DOCTOR: Right-o.

All right now let's get you up here
and we'll let you sleep.

Now there you are.

Now I'm going to have
you go right to sleep.

When you wake up, it
will be all right.

Thanks.

DOCTOR: All right sleep.

NARRATOR: The fact
that he could walk now

does not mean that his
neurosis has been cured.

That will require time.

But the way has been opened
for the therapy to follow.

Now a new way of living begins.

Very different from the old one
whose purpose was killing

and trying not to be killed.

Now in an environment
of peace and safety--

all the violence behind
them-- they are building

rather than destroying.

Men have their choice
of occupational therapy.

Some find relaxation
in mechanical jobs--

certain types of cases of
pain relief and precision

work-- which answers their inner need
for order and certainly.

For sons, and daughters,
and nieces, and nephews,

and neighbor's
kids, hobby horses

are turned out by the carload.

Physically reconditioning
is not the only purpose in sports,

which also serve
to bring men out

of their emotional isolation
and back in group activity.

One of the most
important procedures

is group psychotherapy.

Here under the
psychiatrist guidance,

the patient learns to understand
something of the basic causes

of his distress.

As one of a group,
he also learns to understand

that his inner conflicts
are, with variations,

common to all men.

PSYCHIATRIST: Now I think of it
a little bit like this.

We want to get you out of
your own feeling of isolation.

To get you to feel
that you are alike other people.

In order to get to
that, we have to use

knowledge as one
thing, and something

else which has to be added.

And that is an
experience of safety.

You could say is almost a core
of all our treatments methods.

Development of
knowledge of one's

self with the accompanying
safety it brings.

I'd like to see if we canget some illustrations

of how one's personal safety
would stem from child safety.

And how would
childhood safety self

would stem from the
parent's safety.

Um, my illustration is that
when I was a child, whenever I

was under any experiences
that were frightening to me,

I never told my parents.

I kept it to myself.

While I was alone at night in my room,
I'd call on god.

That if I'd done anything wrong
that I was ashamed of.

I was ashamed that
to go to my parents

and tell them what I had done.

So I kept it to myself.

And I used to-- I know
I used to be in constant fear

that my parents would
find out my feelings.

Well I wonder if there's
any of your mother's troubles

that you would know about?

No, um, uh-- my mother never
gave any of the children

any part of the troubles.

Well, that would be the same thing
that happen to you.

She didn't tell her troubles,
and you didn't tell yours.

You took your troubles to god.

And she probably did the same thing--
probably didn't even

confide in your father.

In other words, the kind of method
that you used to get

relief from anxiety was really--
we'd have to assume-- learned

and felt right in your home
the same kind of thing.

I think it was all caused
by economic conditions

of the world.

I mean, people trying to compete
with one another.

Trying to get
better jobs, trying

to keep up with the uprising,
and living things like that.

Of course, a lot of
arguments in the home,

mother and father arguing
about prices of the food and

PSYCHIATRIST: That's right.

I think that was one of
the causes of my illness.

PSYCHIATRIST: Not having enough food
to eat or the arguments

between the mother and father?

Well, both.

PSYCHIATRIST: Which
was the worst of them?

Well, I just-- they'd argue.

PSYCHIATRIST: Sure,
of course they argued.

Because I can't
remember about the food.

PSYCHIATRIST: There you are.

You can't even remember about the food
or the lack of food.

I have in mind own childhood.

We're uh-- coming from
a moderate family.

Moderate in the
sense that the family

had some sense of security.

What happened there was
that we were told that we-- I mean

myself, my brothers,
and sisters--

we couldn't just play
with any of the kids

we wanted to play with.

Unless their parents in turn
had the equivalent of what

our parents had.

And as a result, we were
kept in a narrow circle.

Very, very narrow.

However, I have
found that there has

been a strong yearning
on my part to break

out of this environment.

To be able to play with Tom,
and Dick, and Harry.

I say, the net result
is like this is.

Your mother did not
feel really so superior.

She felt inferior
and when she tried

to make or take the
attitude that you were

better than the other children.

So that now, and certain
experiences in the army,

have brought that
out more clearly.

Because you've been
thrown in with Tom,

and Dick, and Harry and need
to get along with them.

It's necessary to
be in the army.

Is not necessary
to be in the war.

These kinds of troubles
have always gone on in all time,

to all the centuries.

Did you want to say something?

I never spoke until I was 7.

PSYCHIATRIST: Is that right?

Yes sir.

And I stuttered very bad.

At 14 and 15 I couldn't
recite in school.

They made me talk.

PSYCHIATRIST: Can you explain
how you got started to talk?

How you began to get over that?

Uh, during-- during the war,
the first word I ever spoke,

um-- Santa Clause had
brought me a war gun,

and my brother broke it.

PSYCHIATRIST: This is
the first World War, yes?

[laughter]

So um--

PSYCHIATRIST: And
your brother broke it.

Yeah, when I went and get my gun,
I was, I just says,

well, dick.

Somebody's broke my gun.

That's the first thing I said.

You were angry because
someone broke your gun.

Well, that's the way
I started to talk.

PSYCHIATRIST: I would say,
all those symptoms-- like being

unable to speak,
stuttering, and so on-- they

have underlying anger and
resentment in the deeper

parts of the personality.

You can almost say it like this.

Underneath "I can't" you
usually find "I won't."

Kevin, on Okinawa
I was stuttering,

too-- about three weeks.

And as soon as I came
here-- near a month

now-- I've stopped stuttering.

PSYCHIATRIST: You've
stopped stuttering

completely since you got here?
-Yes sir.

PSYCHIATRIST: That's good.

I know that's a tribute
to you doctors, a tribute

to your fundamental health.

I think it's to my
fundamental self.

PSYCHIATRIST: No-- no tribute
to the doctor's at all?

No sir.

[laughter]

PSYCHIATRIST: Very good.

NARRATOR: Some patients
require special therapy.

Hypnosis is often effective
in certain types of battle

neuroses such as amnesia.

This man does not even
remember his own name.

A shell burst in Okimawa
wiped out his memory.

The experience
was an unendurable

to his conscious mind
which rejected it.

And along with it,
his entire past.

Through hypnotic suggestion,
the psychiatrist

will attempt evoke them.

PSYCHIATRIST: Relax completely.

And uh, put your mind
on going to sleep.

All right, now keep
your eyes on mine.

Keep your eyes on mine,
andk eep them fixed on mine.

And keep your mind
entirely on falling asleep.

You're going to go into
a deep sleep as we go in.

You're going to go into
a deep sleep as we go in.

Now clasp your hands
in front of you.

Clasp them tight, tight,
tight, tight, tight.

They're getting tighter
and tighter and tighter.

And as they get tighter
you're falling asleep.

As they get tighter,
you're falling asleep.

Your eyes are getting heavy.
Heavy.

Now your hands are locked tight.

You're locked tight.

They're locked tight.

You can't let go.

You're locked tight.
You can't let go.

When I snap my fingers,
you'll be able to let go.

When I snap my fingers,
you'll be able to let go.

And then you'll get sleepier.

And your eyes are
getting heavier.

[snap]

Now your eyes are getting heavier,
heavier, heavier.

You're going into
a deep, deep sleep.

You're going to a
deep, deep sleep.

Deep asleep.

Far asleep.

Eyes are now closed tight.

Closed tight.

Going to a deep, deep sleep.

Deeply relaxed.

Far asleep.

You're far asleep.

You're far asleep.

Now you're in a deep sleep.

You have no fear, no anxiety.

No fear, no anxiety.

Now you're in a
deep, deep sleep.

Now just sit down in
the chair behind you.

Sit down in the
chair behind you.

Lean back.

And now fall forward
into a deep, deep sleep.

Your head is now
falling forward.

You're going further, and further,
and further asleep.

I stroke your left
arm to come rigid.

Like a bar of steel.

And you go further asleep.

Further asleep.

Falling further,
further, further asleep.

Rigid.

Cannot be bent or relaxed.

When I touch the
top of your head

when I touch the top of your head,
that arm will relax

and the other will become rigid.

And you'll go further asleep.

You'll be in a very deep sleep.

And your sleep is
deeper and deeper.

And Now when I touch this hand,
my finger will be hot.

When I touch this
hand, my finger be hot.

You'll not be able to bear it.

Your arm is rigid.

And now as I touch
your hand, you will

no longer feel any pain there.

It will be normal.

Now the arm is relaxed and
you're further, and further,

and further asleep.

Now you're deep asleep.

We're going back.

We're going back now
going back to Okinawa.

Going back to Okinawa.

You can talk.

You can talk.

You can remember.

Everything.

You can remember everything.

Going back on Okinawa.

Tell me what you see.

Tell me.

Speak.

I'm in the battery area.

PSYCHIATRIST: You're
in the battery area.

Go on.

Tell me what's going on.

Getting fire missions.

PSYCHIATRIST: You're
getting fire missions.

Go on.

You can see everything
now clearly.

We're getting
shells thrown as us.

You're getting
shells thrown at you.

From where?
-Japs.

Japs.

Go on.

[mumbling]

Yes.

[mumbling]

Keep on.

You remember it all now.

Every bit of it is coming back.

The Japs getting nearer
to get our position.

PSYCHIATRIST: Japs getting
nearer to get your position.

Go on.

They told us to get coming--

Who told you to get coming?

AC.

AC.

Go on.

He's fighting us.

One of the boys got hurt.

One of the boys got hurt.

Kicking away [inaudible]
current position.

Yes go on.

You remember it now.

Tell me.

It's all right now,
but you can tell me.

You can tell me.

Explosion.

PSYCHIATRIST: Yes.

You remember the explosion now.

All right, go on.

They're carrying me.

PSYCHIATRIST:
They're carrying you.

Who was carrying you?

Davenport.

PSYCHIATRIST: Where
are they taking you?

Carrying me across the field.

Across the field.

Go on.

Put me on a stretcher.

Yes.

Yes?

Go on.

They're still-- they're
still throwing shots.

PSYCHIATRIST: Yes.

Can you hear them?

Yes.

Can you see them?

No.

All right.

Where are they taking you now?

And it shook.

Why are you fearful now?

I don't want to--

PSYCHIATRIST: You
don't want anymore?

No.

PSYCHIATRIST: You
want to forget it.

But you're going to remember it
because it's gone now.

It's gone.

You're back here now.

You're away from Okinawa,
you've forgotten it.

But you remember
who you are now.

Who are you?

That's right.

Full name now.

That's right.

Hmm?

Know your mother's name?

Isabelle.

PSYCHIATRIST: That's right.

Fathers?

Jonathan.

PSYCHIATRIST: That's fine.

Know who they all are now?

All right.

Now you're coming back with us.

This is going to stay with you.

You're going to remember it all.

You're going to
remember about Okinawa.

You're going to remember about
the shells and the bombs.

But they're gone.

At ease, relaxed.

There's no fear, no anxiety.

When I wake you up, you'll be
comfortable and relaxed.

No pains and no aches.

But you'll remember
all that I've told you.

All that you have remembered.

You can wake now.

Well.

How are you?

Pretty good.

NARRATOR: Under the guidance
of the psychiatrist,

he is able to regard
his experience in it's

true perspective as a
thing of the past, which

no longer threatens his safety.

Now he can remember.

PSYCHIATRIST: Well,
what's your trouble?

Hmm?

--[stuttering] It's hard hard for me
to get my words words out.

PSYCHIATRIST: Yeah, it does
seem to be a bit tough.

How long have you
had that trouble?

--[stuttering] It
started a while ago.

Month ago.

PSYCHIATRIST: Where
were you then?

In uh, France.

PSYCHIATRIST: Have
you been in combat?

Yes.

PSYCHIATRIST: Well maybe
we can help you talk a bit better

and you can tell me more
about it then, right?

Let's lie down and see
if we can help you on that.

NARRATOR: This man is
not a chronic stutterer.

He suffers from a battle
tension, which the drug

will attempt to diminish.

Like the man who could
not walk, and the man

who could not remember,
his illness has an emotional basis.

PSYCHIATRIST: You're all
comfortable and relaxed.

We're just going to give
you some medicine here

and it's going to help limber out
that tune of yours.

And this is going to make you
feel a bit groggy.

Now, tell me now.

How do you feel now?

Hmm?

Make any difference
in your feeling.

It feels just like
seventh heaven.

PSYCHIATRIST: What is it?

Tell me about it.

Yeah.

I can talk.

PSYCHIATRIST: That's fine.

I can talk!

I can talk!

PSYCHIATRIST: That's good, boy.

Listen, I can talk!

Oh god, listen!

I can talk!

Holy mother of god, listen!

PSYCHIATRIST: All right,
it's coming back now.

You can take it easy.

Just take it easy.

Oh listen, I can talk!

PSYCHIATRIST: Just the
way you always did.

All right?

Hmm?

God listen.

God, I can talk!

PSYCHIATRIST: Just the
way you always did.

Why are you crying with it now?

Oh, it's nice.

PSYCHIATRIST: Just
take it easy now.

Just talk a little lightly now.

Tell me, go any idea
why you couldn't talk before?

What's coming to your mind now?

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?

Something came through
there and stopped it.

What is it now?

Think quickly.

Think deeply.

Let's go back.

When was it you
lost your speech?

Had you trouble talking?

Go back quickly.

Seems that first
noticed it on a boat.

PSYCHIATRIST: On a boat.

It turned over.

I first started with an S.
And the fellers laughed at me.

I dind't know why they laughed.

That's when it started.

PSYCHIATRIST: Well
let's talk with that

S. Let's go back to that S now.

What were you thinking then?

What was in your mind then?

Right now?
PSYCHIATRIST: No.

Then.
-On the boat?

PSYCHIATRIST: Yes.

With that S.
When you couldn't say that S right.

S?

PSYCHIATRIST: Yes.

Portside.

PSYCHIATRIST: Portside.

Portside.

PSYCHIATRIST: Mm-hmm.

Portside of the ship.

PSYCHIATRIST: What side is that?

That would be the left side.

PSYCHIATRIST: Left side.

That's right.

Yeah, I remember.

Because we were up there
that afternoon and we

saw the fishes.

Yeah, we had some flying fishes.

And I came down, and he said,
I was telling the feller

underneath me about the ports
that I had seen some flying

fishes on the portside.

NARRATOR: He tried telling him
about the flying fishes

and he stumbled
over the S sound.

And the fellers laughed at him.

Think hard.

S. S. What does S remind him of?

S. S. He remembers.

It was the sound he fears.

The sound of death in combat.

[hissing sound] The sound of
a German 88 high explosive shell

coming in.

Now it is possible to proceed
to the basic method

of psychiatric treatment.

Discussion and understanding
of the underlying

causes of his symptom.

[music playing]

NARRATOR: As the weeks
pass, the therapy

begins to show its effect.

The shock and stress of warare starting to wear off.

All these men are blessed with
the natural regenerative powers

of youth.

Now they are living less in the past
and more in the present.

Sometimes they
think of the future.

The war years must be put aside
and the responsibilities

of peace must be considered.

A man might open a filling station
or a hardware store.

Or he can buy a few acres of land
and raise some chickens.

He might even go back to school.

Visitors day.

Now the men resume their contact
with the world outside.

These are the people
they are coming back to, whose

lives are bound up in theirs.

Without their
understanding, all that

has been accomplished
in the last few weeks

can be torn down.

With it, their return to life
can be doubly swift and sure.

Classes in group
psychotherapy continue.

The men are thinking of
themselves in relation

to society.

How will they fit into
the post-war pattern?

How will the world receive them?

PSYCHIATRIST: You've fellers
have had an opportunity

to be home with your
families since you

returned from overseas.

Have you noticed any change
in the various members

of your family toward you
and their reactions toward you?

Well I found out that
after four years of absence,

that it only took me the second day
to be really relaxed.

And I was right chumming
again with my dad,

and we talked about
the old neighborhood,

and the new changes.

I don't know.

It surprised me.

PSYCHIATRIST: Do you
feel that your family

has to be taught how to treat you
when you come back?

No, absolutely not.

PSYCHIATRIST: How do you want
to be treated by family?

The same way I was treated
before I went into the service.

No different.

PSYCHIATRIST: You don't want to
treated any differently?

No.

I was talking to one man
and I say, what do you

think of us fellers
that come back

with psychoneurosis
anxiety state?

And I says, you
can see that we're

not, uh, crazy by any means.

He say, well Ma, before I come out here
to see you-- he says,

my first impression
was like in Bellevue.

He said, fellers from the last war
were completely maniacs.

He said, that was
my first impression.

Then I wondered if uh-- I mean,
the great percentage

of the people got to be
like them when we get out.

PSYCHIATRIST: That is a common
concern among servicemen

who have developed
nervous conditions

during their stay in the army.

As to what the public
is going to think about them.

Undoubtedly, there
will be people

on the outside who won't
have any understanding

of the condition.

Who may think of it as being
a rather shameful condition.

That's why we're having
an educational program trying

to educate the public
into understanding.

Unfortunately,
most of you fellas

have gone through
some very severe stresses in the army.

Stresses that civilians
are rarely subjective to.

In civilian life, you can
avoid serious stresses.

If a civilian-- the
average civilian--

were subjected to
similar stresses,

he undoubtedly
would have developed

the same type of
nervous condition

that most of you
fellas developed.

All of us have so-called
breaking point.

A survey outside showed
that civilians on a whole

were more nervous than soldiers.

On Park Ave, for instance,
for some of your richest people

there, most of the
patients are people who

suffer from nervous disorders.

And if the doctor
won't give them

a pill, why they'll
go out and say,

well he's not a good doctor.

So therefore,
they're giving pills

and they're taking them at home.

They take these pills at home
because the hospitals

are too full.

If the hospitals were empty,
they'd be in the Sanitarium

and so forth.

Having experience
with none of these discussions

like the other men
have, I know that we

have a learning the basis
of how we got nervous.

Some of us through
combat, and some

of us by not being in combat.

And I think-- I'm sure
that we have a better understanding

of our conditions.

And I'm pretty grateful of being here
at Mason General Hospital,

like a lot fellas are.

It just so happens
that I couldn't walk.

And they made me walk.

I couldn't walk when I arrived,
and I was here 24 hours

and they made me walk.

I feel pretty grateful
getting my limbs back.

PSYCHIATRIST: Wow.

But [inaudible], it start--
I know that uh, when I got here

and the other fellas did, too--
we tried out best to make

ourselves as best we can.

And uh, we feel
more confident then

to grasp this nervous situations
that have come about us.

And we want to show you people
that we can do things

on our own on the outside.

Whether we've been
in the hospital for nervous,

or anything, if we
lost and arm or a leg,

that we can be just as
good as anybody else.

Well all I want
is that they give

us a chance to
prove our equality,

like they said they were.

I hope they keep their promise.

That's all I hope.

Would you make it a point
to tell your employer that you

were a psycho-neurotic?

Well, if he's an intelligent man--
which most well known

employers are that
own large concerns--

why, he's going to react the same
as any other normal human

being would.

He's going say, it's
absolutely plausible.

And a man, right now if it's
all right, I'll try him out.

But you may run
into employers who

are not that broad-minded
or intelligent.

Yes sir.

And I'll sell myself to them.

PSYCHIATRIST: How about you?

Do you have any
plans about jobs?

Or do you have any fears
about getting a job or--

That's fine.

I have my job
waiting for me, sir.

PSYCHIATRIST: You have your job
waiting for you.

I think it comes down
to this, doesn't it?

That most of you fellows
feel that you ought to be

honest with your employer.

That you have nothing to hide,
nothing to be ashamed of.

Yes sir.

PSYCHIATRIST: Isn't that
the general attitude?

Your time in the service
was not entirely wasted.

You have learned a great
deal of the service.

For instance, a great many jobs
and tasks that you have learned

to do in a service that
you have had absolutely

no contact with the past.

You've learned to work
in groups-- something

that every soldier
learns to do very

early in his military career.

This definitely will
be of much value to you

in your future
civilian employment.

[music playing]

NARRATOR: The weeks
have slipped by fast.

The first strings of hospital life
has become routine.

Sometimes a man
learns something new.

A ranger always did
want to play guitar.

[guitar music]

NARRATOR: And now the
days begin to seem long.

There's the old helpless sound
of bellyaching in the air.

Spinach?

Spinach, again?

And how about a good
movie for a change?

And how about putting some ice cream
in the ice cream soda?

No longer is a man shut up
within the lonely recesses

of himself.

He is breaking out
his prison into life.

The life that lies ahead
offering infinity possibilities

for happiness and salve.

How does a man find happiness?

Is it a secret to discover?

What is the mysterious
ingredient that gives

joy and meaning to living?

PSYCHIATRIST: You
know in the bible

where it says,
"man does not live by bread alone?"

Children don't go up well
without safety and confidence.

If that wasn't in one's
childhood in growing up,

you could say, now
there's something

missing during all that time.

And the next question
is, how to supply it.

And it does need to be supplied.

Not all of the learning
and all of the books

is half as valuable in
getting over nervousness

as to find someone that
you esteem that you

can learn to feel safe with.

Where you can get a feeling
of being accepted, of cherished.

Where you get a feeling
that you are worthwhile,

and that you are
important to someone.

You could say, the
feeding that you

didn't get that's something
more than bread,

when you were little.

You still need to get it.

You still need to
be fed acceptance

and to find the safety.

In other words,
knowledg ealone is not enough.

[cheering]

NARRATOR: 8 weeks have passed.

What about these men?

Are they ready for discharge?

How complete is their recovery?

[cheering]

NARRATOR: How about
the boy in right field?

I just didn't care
what happened to me.

NARRATOR: How the kid at bat?

In fact, I was covered by dirt.

I was covered up for 29 hours afterwards
until they found me.

Out!

You're out!

NARRATOR: How about the umpire?

--[stuttering] I-- I-- I need
to get my w-w-words out.

You're out!
Go on!

Batter up!

NARRATOR: How about this kid?

How about him?

Are they well enough
to be discharged?

That is for the doctors to decide
at tomorrow's morning.

The answer is yes.

[MUSIC PLAYING
"WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME AGAIN"]

OFFICER: Men, this is your last
military formation.

Today you're returning
to your homes,

your families, and friends.

Many of you have been looking forward
eagerly to this day.

But remember, when you
reenter civilian life,

on your shoulders falls
much of the responsibility

for the postwar world.

May your lives as civilians
be as worthy as your records

as soldiers.

Good health, good
fortune, and God speed.

[music playing]