ABSTRACT
M UCH HAS been written about the ‘industrial neuroses’ that follow acci dents for which compensation can be claimed, and about the ‘war neuroses’ in which pensions play a part. The effects of unemployment upon the mental state have also been much spoken of in the last few years. There are, in short, generally recognized conditions in which social influences seem to play an indispensable part in provoking mental illness and so maintaining social in capacity. But since these social influences act upon many more than the few who respond with neurosis, it is important to see what other predisposing factors are at work in these few, as well as the social and clinical consequences of the adverse circumstances.
