The Present Position in Clinical Psychology.

Clinical psychology in Europe and its relationships with psychiatry The present and the future of clinical psychology in the UK

In the UK clinical psychology is in demand. Training courses are being commissioned to provide more places each year. Currently (2001), 30 courses exist and train over 400 people per year, almost exclusively on 3 year doctoral degrees, which require supervised practice, academic ability and research skills. "Clinical psychology aims to reduce psychological distress and to enhance and promote ps...

Vagotomy; the present position.

The operation of vagotomy was suggested as long ago a's I812 by Brodie and was tried in cases of gastric crises by Exner and Schwatzman in 1912, and Latarjet in 1923. Bircher (1920), Steirlin (1920) and Schiassi (I925) reported good results in peptic ulcer, but the results do not appear to have been lasting and others who tried the operation were soon disappointed. Not until 1942 was really com...

Thyrotoxicosis; the present position.

Present-day Psychology

PRESENT-DAY PSYCHOLOGY. A. A. Roback, Editor, with the collaboration of forty experts in the variouis fields. New York, Philosophical Library. 1955. xiv, 995 pp. $12.00. In this volume an attempt is made to survey the entire field of contemporary psychology, incltudinig not only the traditional topics of academlic psychological interest, such as perception, cognition, attention, emotionl, etc.,...

The Present Position of Endocrinology.

i. The diencephalon has been conclusively shown to be the nervous structure concerned with the expression of the emotions. 2. The pituitary, which is so closely associated with the diencephalon, has become recognized as the leader of the endocrine orchestra. 3. It is now realized that all nervous impulses have a chemical mediator between the neuron and the tissue cell, and indeed between one ne...