 Several of the interviewees he quotes were conscientious objectors (COs), assigned as staffers to state mental hospitals in lieu of military service.The National Mental Health Foundation which Deutsch describes in the penultimate chapter was in fact founded by a group of these CO attendants.Deutsch himself also felt the end of World War II keenly, as a significant amount of his research and writing in 1945 was concentrated on conditions in veterans’ hospitals, with regards to both physical and psychiatric facilities—much what he discovered was published as a series on the maltreatment of veterans for the "PM."