After six years since the war's closing this observer's experience with Australian soldiers is similar to that of most others with the ex-service men. They still are with us and the flight into an illness still remains a complex problem. Two things he thinks essential to remember. Wrong treatment is worse than none at all, and most treatments thus far have been wrong, and that it is a soothing illusion that time will bring a cure. These thoughts have caused him to present his observations. He classifies his cases for descriptive purposes into (1) anxiety states, (2) compulsion neuroses, (3) conversion hysterias, (4) neurasthenoid conditions, and (5) organic and psychoneurotic combinations (Ferenczi's pathoneuroses). After outlining what he means by these more or less arbitrary groupings Dane states that he can understand his material only in the light of the Freudian principles. Even superficial analysis invariably shows the importance of the faulty sexual adaptations which existed antecedent to the breakdown. The usual explanations that he finds among his British