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Phoney war psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Louis Appleby
Louis Appleby*
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Withington Hospital, Manchester M20 8LR
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One curious image of the earliest Gulf fighting was a TV journalist standing in front of an acre of rubble in Tel Aviv and insisting, “The main effect of this Scud attack was psychological.‘’. What made it more curious was that after what had gone before, it was easy to believe him. Because, deprived of substantial news by a lack of action and the censorship of both sides, journalists had for weeks presented a procession of “psychological” angles, although they were more a clue to what the word means to the press.

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Psychiatry and the Media
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 5 , May 1991 , pp. 291
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