ABSTRACT
In treatment due regard should be paid to the dissolutionary state of the patient; the principles apply equally to ‘war stammerers.’ The first requirement is to remove these patients to a base hospital as soon as the physical condition permits this. There psychological treatment should be carried out by a qualified speech therapist along the lines. In this case psychological treatment should be directed towards the abolishment of the patient’s withdrawal from the external world and re-establishment of the ‘listening’ function. “The rough-and-ready application of a second shock to cure a previous 1 shock,’ “is to be condemned, since it is “apt to convert mutism into stuttering.” Exact and complete descriptions of the linguistic state with due regard to rendering both the articulatory shapes and the sounds in phonetic notation are desirable. Such efforts will also help to discriminate dyslalic disorders from dysarthric ones.
