Quotable Quotes -- World War I British Doctor on Humane Treatment for PTSD

" Do not send your cases down the line ... when you get these emotional cases, unless they are very bad ... give him a rest at the aid post if necessary and a day or two’s sleep, go up with him to the front line, and, when there, see him often, sit down beside him and talk to him about the war or look through his periscope and let the man see you are taking an interest in him, [and] you will not have nearly so many cases of anxiety neurosis." -- Col. J. S. Y. Rogers, 4/Black Watch, Report of the War Office Committee of Enquiry into 'Shell-Shock’ (London, HMSO, 1922), 64. Quoted in "'Pitiless psychology': the role of prevention in British military psychiatry in the second world war," by Ben Shepard, published in The History of Psychiatry, 1999; 10; 491, linked in full here.