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Morale and Flying Experience: Results of a Wartime Study

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D. Stafford-Clark
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Comparable with the misconceived diagnoses of shell shock (1) and D.A.H. (2) which were current in Army practice in the World War of 1914–18 were the terms Flying Stress (3), Aviators Fatigue (4), Aviator's Neurasthenia and the American Aeroneurosis (5), of aviation medicine. With all, a convenient label covered unjustified assumptions about pathogenesis.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 95 , Issue 398 , January 1949 , pp. 10 - 50
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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