This description of battle neuroses recounts once more the well-known symptoms of these nervous disorders. The author is of the opinion that the disturbances are primarily situational anxiety reactions and that the underlying personality and the unconscious emotional conflicts are relatively unimportant.

A case is described in which an acute confusional state developed. The symptoms and corroborative data under pentothal showed hysterical mechanisms underlying a denial of reality and a regression to a state of infantile dependence on the mother. A strong sense of identification with the enemy appears, in Hamlet fashion, to have inhibited his aggressive drives and precipitated the confusion state. After reassurance against return to battle, rapid recovery was noted.