We may perhaps be sceptical regarding the flood of literature on this subject proceeding from across the Atlantic, but the fact that the author, now Professor of Education in the Teachers' College, Columbia University, U.S.A., was formerly a distinguished student of one of our own Universities, may win for this book a somewhat readier welcome. It will certainly be deserved, for at the present s...

‘Heart Development and Regeneration’, edited by Nadia Rosenthal and Richard P. Harvey Published by Elsevier/Academic Press 3251 Riverport Lane, Maryland Heights, MO 63043, USA $199.95. ISBN 978-0-12-381332-9 (Set) Reviewed by Patrick P. L. Tam Embryology Unit, Children’s Medical Research Institute and Discipline of Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia e-mail: ptam@cm...

Special Care and Treatment of Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders in New Zealand. Wellington. 1925. Is. A copy of this Report, to which we referred in our July issue, has now reached us from Wellington, through the courtesy of the Acting Director-General of Health. The Committee dealt separately with the two classes of persons named, as being not necessarily identical, and we only propose to...

First, the editors should be complimented on their selection of an eminent group of contributors from different parts of the world, producing a volume with a truly international perspective. As the preface and the title suggest, this book attempts to provide a practical guide to diagnosing, assessing, and managing obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) in a clinical setting. With increasing public...

As is rightly pointed out in the course of the introduction by Sir Humphry Rolleston, President of the Eugenics Society, the science of eugenics has been brought into prominence by the alteration in the birth-rate due to the progressive adoption of birth-control which, with the stress of economic conditions, has materially disturbed the balance between the wellendowed stocks and the defective i...

martingale convergence theorem (for square integrable martingales) and the optional stopping theorem are proved here, with many examples. The remaining four chapters are on more general random processes; here we have stationary processes, diffusions, renewal theory and queueing theory. My feeling is that these chapters are less successful than the earlier ones. For one thing, there are already ...

Resistance, plainly spoken, refers to the problems encountered by patients when they attempt to address and master feelings and experiences that had been previously avoided or diminished. It has been central to psychoanalytic and dynamic accounts of treatment for well over a century, both as a means of gauging how the process of treatment is proceeding and as a target of treatment in its own ri...

in 1921 within the New York School of Social Work. The Bureau served the triple purpose of providing a clinic for the treatment of nervous or difficult children, a research unit for investigation into problems of normal and abnormal psychology, and a field for the practical training of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. The Bureau was maintained in its virginal form for five and o...

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