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Norman A. Brill. Bulletin of the U. S. Army Medical Dept., V, No. 4, April 1946.
Neuropsychiatric examinations of four thousand six hundred seventeen men who had been liberated from Japanese prison camps and had subsequently returned to this country, showed that the general mental health was surprisingly good. Nearly all the men revealed tremendous resentment which was
channelized entirely toward the Japanese. 'Mild anxiety' was found to be widespread and seemed to be most intense in the men who had been out of prison longest. However only thirty-four cases of psychoneurosis were diagnosed, and five cases of psychosis were found. The opinion is expressed that only men with 'courage' survived, but apprehension is expressed that serious emotional difficulties may develop during the period of readjustment.