ABSTRACT
Military staffs were selected who had acquired positive understanding of the psychiatric point of view from experiences with the War Office Selection Boards and, in particular, of group-psychological orientation. The ordinary army claims for discipline and procedure were forcefully represented by the Commanding Officer, a Regular soldier. This prevented the experiment from assuming an artificial note unrelated to military and other reality. If one has in mind the living reception into the hospital at the time by comparison with that in Phase A good impression is conveyed of what is meant by a group approach and the meaning of the phrase "making a hospital into a community." The atmosphere within the hospital changed in accordance with the new circumstances, and now again moved in the direction of what had obtained in Phase A. Phase B was initiated at the end of 1944 with the Second Front an established fact.
