![]() ![]() In such times as these the potential neurotic or psychotic pulls himself together a bit, he wants to put on a face as good and as great as any other man, he rises to the occasion and in consequence consultation work and admission to hospital are rather less than in ordinary times. 2 Continuing this pattern in his private correspondence, the Edinburgh psychiatrist David Kennedy Henderson would write in the New Year to his American colleague, Adolf Meyer, that: 1 Despite this onslaught and the ‘“Blind savagery” of night attacks’, The Times described a courageous dignity among the citizenry. Desmond Flower recalled how London shook as the first bombs hit the docks, while in early September 1940, nurse Frances Faviell described London's casualties as, “bodies, limbs, blood and flesh mingled with little hats, coats, and shoes”. ![]() From August 1940 until May 1941, Germany subjected Great Britain to air bombardments by night and day.
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