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Sometimes a recruit being examined by psychiatrists is truculent, has a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. Navy psychiatrists have learned by experience that such a recruit is not necessarily a psychiatric personality unfit for service; he may be a perfectly normal guy from Brooklyn. Says the New York State Journal of Medicine, the Navy doctors have christened this “harmless social pattern” the “Brooklyn syndrome [set of symptoms].”
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