[lit-ideas] Re: Mop Rumpchuck

Fascinating. Could you give us some examples?
John

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:35 PM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:22 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
>
> >   Privates in the First World War look melodramatic compared to
> > soldiers getting group therapy during and after Vietnam.
> >
> >
> I want to add that I have no doubt that soldiers suffered and that I
> trust the honest reporting of many of them.  What's really
> interesting is the way in which people's minds under extreme stress
> can conjure symptoms that are likely to be negotiable within the--
> well in my thesis I likened it to a monetary system--of medicine; one
> kind of symptoms from officers, a different kind from other ranks.
> One set of symptoms in one war, a different set of symptoms in
> another war.
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
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