I think merging would be a good idea.  This is not a term used nowadays and is one of the many desciptive  terms now covered by PTSD.  Survivor guilt was a key symptom in the original diagnosis of PTSD in DSM III.  I have, however also done an edit.
   19 May 2008 Paddybw.

+++Don't Merge+++
The fact that survivors syndrome is closely related to the historical period of post-world war 2 is the fact that it should not be merged. Survivors guilt mostly relates 2 anything that was survived. Survivors syndrome is more closely related to the concentration camps of hitler  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.57.127.230    66.57.127.230   Dewey

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