Two hundred patients with chronic intractable pain have been evaluated in order to study the clinical characteristics of pain and associated psychiatric illnesses. The commonest site of pain was reported to be head and face, usually dull in nature. Almost 75% of patients reported continuous pain. A great majority (40%-80%) had some psycho-social problem or other problem resultant from the chron...

This review clarifies the fact that basal ganglia diseases are psychiatric as much as neurological diseases. It illustrates psychiatric aspects in Parkinson's disease and other hereditary basal ganglia diseases such as Wilson's disease, Huntington's chorea and others. In these diseases, psychological disorders can be difficult to diagnose, whether they are concomitant with the primary (neurolog...

of Monographs on Child Psychiatry (No. 1), ed. Ernest Harms. (Pergamon "^hi 1963, 70s.) In the introduction to this book, containing fifteen articles by various authors, % Harold Abrahamson remarks that "the theory and practice of the therapy of allergic patient must tfe revised." He goes on to say: "This volume provides a br^L point of view which recognises that a merger between the broad conc...