SHELL-SHOCK CASES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16704, 12 December 1919, Page 11

SHELL-SHOCK CASES.

—» TREATMENT AT HANMER. (srari.vr. to "thk mess.") AY ELLINGTON, December 11.

Dr. Arnold Izard, who recently returned to New Zealand from service abroad, will proceed, in ocrmpnuv with Dr. CJiisholm, to continue tho psychotherapeutic treatment of shell shock eases at H,miner Springs. Dr Izard had considerable experience in this new branch of science at Littlewood, near London, and speaks of the wonderful results achieved hv the .scientific application of hypnosis and auto-sug-gestion. th'i dumb being made to speak, the deaf to hear, and the Jamo made to walk. Tho percentage - of cures was very high, but hero and there relapses did occur.

Dr. Iznrd relates th«' curious psychological fact, that, n wounded man novor stifiered from slioll shock; tliat was to say. that his mental eondition on boiiiK wounded was one of satisfaction that lie had ''done his hit," and so rendered him immune from brain trouble. There Here, too, eases of shell fdiork in men who had never been in the lines, attributable to their mental condition. perhaps bv simple inoculation.