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For the prevention of panic, especially in air raids, it is essential (1) that an authority should be available to control the masses, (2) an outlet must be found for their accumulated and repressed aggression, and (3) paranoid fears must be allayed. After making various practical suggestions for prevention, the author discusses psychological first-aid treatment in the casualty stations, and expresses the view that while
analytical knowledge will prove an advantage, treatment of large numbers of people, aiming at immediate results, must necessarily involve the reverse of the customary analytical technique.
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