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One Monday morning in the winter of 1958 I woke up to discover that the flu epidemic that had been wreaking havoc in Asia was spreading across Europe and had reached our shores; so it was with a great deal of trepidation that I made my way to the surgery to have my worst fears confirmed. My partners and I shared the colossal visiting lists, my own allocation consisted of more than 30 calls. The morning surgeries were rushed through as …

Let us call her Frederica for the sake of anonymity. I had been the family doctor for many years, and had attended to her late parents as well as her siblings. She was a 40 year old unmarried woman with a great zest for living, a unique sense of humour, and a modest awareness of her physical beauty. She spent her annual summer holiday basking in the hot sun of the Cote d'Azur, whence she sent me a breezy picture postcard with her own inimitable funny remarks. Though our relationship was …

In a Discussion Session of the Sixth IPPNW World Congress the psychology of anxiety was considered conceptually and in relation to nuclear war.