"TROPHO-NEUROSIS OF THE UTERUS."

The Neurosis of Man

MALE AND FEMALE. By Margaret Mead. New York, William Morrow and Co., 1949. 477 pp. $5.00. Margaret Mead has made an assumption, not necessarily held by all present day sexologists, that there is a fundamental difference between the human male and the human female, and has utilized four hundred and seventy-seven pages in impressive documentation of this thesis. Seven Southwest Pacific societies,...

Institutional Neurosis

Compensation neurosis.

The concept of compensation neurosis developed in the wake of the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution and subsequent enactment of workmen's compensation laws. The nosologic designation of traumatic neurosis was not consensually accepted until after World War II; the compensation label was epithetically applied as a simplistic explanation of puzzling postaccident disability. In diagnostic e...

Neurosis in the Ordinary Family

(Tavistock Publications, 32s. 6d) The family doctor, sitting at the centre of his observed world over years, has unique facilities for observation and record. All general practitioners in the National Health Service have two other advantages: that patients cared for on the 'list' comprise a practice population nearly representative of the community at large and that the doctor seems to be the b...

Viruses, neurosis and fatigue.

The evidence for viral infections as a cause of anxiety, depression and fatigue is reviewed. It is argued that in order to fully understand any proposed relationship the effects of psychosocial factors on immunity, convalescence and illness behaviour must be acknowledged.