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Conscientious Objectors with Psychiatric States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Harry Stalker
Harry Stalker*
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Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders; University of Edinburgh
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Conscientious objection is a problem involving both personalities and society. It has important military, political, ethical, religious and sometimes psychiatric aspects. It is only where conscientious objection arises in a person who shows signs of psychiatric disorder that the psychiatrist has to take an active professional interest. He has sometimes to treat patients struggling with the problem of conscientious objection and sometimes has to report on them to the Recruiting Medical Boards. Thus this aspect of conscientious objection becomes a part of war psychiatry. My own interest in the problem was aroused by seeing a number of psychiatric patients who were objectors.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 89 , Issue 374 , January 1943, pp. 52 - 58
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1943 

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