Letter from Chicago: Philosophers and other threats to health

Letter from . . . Chicago: Primary health-care crises.

1267 small homes with people with other handicaps and that elderly epileptics whose condition does not warrant hospital care should be placed in local authority homes for the elderly. A geriatric patient with severe epilepsy would not be best served in a geriatric ward or a district general hospital, where it is doubtful that his special needs would be met. I am quite certain that epileptics re...

Letter from chicago: compulsion.

About a quarter of a century ago I failed psychiatry because of my imperfect understanding of the obsessive-compulsive disorders. I had not grasped the difference between compulsions and obsessions, the professor pointed out from behind his big desk; and I had written that these disorders were rare when in fact they were exceedingly common. So I spent the summer clarifying these points in my mi...

Letter from Chicago: Oblomov's syndrome.

Letter from Chicago: Winter's tales.

Letter from Chicago: Trifles soothe the mind.