? mil a Zelda, mercurial child of the hectic '20s, captured the love of novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald. In a frenzied effort to match his genius she threw herself into painting, writing and ballet before tragically ending her life in a mental hospital.

This study explores the attitude of German psychiatrists in leading positions towards joint crisis plans and psychiatric advance directives. This topic was examined by contacting 473 medical directors of German psychiatric hospitals and departments. They were asked to complete a questionnaire developed by us. That form contained questions about the incidence and acceptance of joint crisis plans...

Medical doctors in teaching hospitals aim to serve the two central goals of patient care and medical training. Whereas patient care asks for experience, expertise and close supervision, medical training requires space to practise and the 'invisibility' of medical residents. Yet current reforms in postgraduate medical training point to an increasing emphasis on the measurable visibility of resid...

This descriptive study systematically sampled 100 closed records of children hospitalized at a children's psychiatric hospital in a midwest city over the past 5 years to determine the prevalence of children identified as having a history of sexual abuse. The symptoms of abuse manifested by these children were compared with the prevalence of children without an identified history of sexual abuse...

The purpose and objectives of this exploratory descriptive study were threefold: to assess the impact of pet-assisted therapy on the overall well-being of behavioral health staff, to document whether pet-assisted therapy affected the retention of behavioral health staff, and to explore and describe therapeutic measures behavioral health staff implemented in using pet-assisted therapy in the del...

The case notes of all patients admitted in 1981 to two Birmingham psychiatric hospitals on compulsory orders for treatment were examined to determine whether, had the new "consent to treatment" proposals in the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill been in operation, a second opinion was necessary. This concluded that there will be difficulties in operating the arrangements to provide a second opinion...

a battery of treatments in the mental hospital. We are in the screen world where every nurse is pretty and kind, the doctors gentle and understanding, even fellow patients are little disturbing and in the spacious ward, french windows let in the sunshine. Granted the film technique, has the story anything to teach the lay public ? A curiosity about psychology has been shown by the popularity of...

MATERIAL for this article has proved difficult to collect as there are few records or statistics, but in a short article only a few examples can be given. Many Medical Superintendents, Occupational Therapists and others have inaugurated ballroom, country, national and other dance mostly in psychiatric hospitals, which have become part of the pattern of hospital life and bring not only enjoyment...

The metamorphosis from an extensive mental hospital system of care, rooted in a culture and tradition of self-sufficiency and isolation, to the concept and practise of delivery of psychiatric care in general hospitals is described. The obstacles, psychological and practical, to be overcome in this change process are outlined. The place of the general hospital psychiatric unit in psychiatric and...

Several years ago a science fiction writer created in his fiction a .machine called a sanity meter, which automatically gauged a person's potelltial for dangerous conduct. The meter, which was installed in all public places, registered from zero to ten. A person scoring up to three was considered normal; a person scoring between four and seven, while within the tolerance limit, was advised to u...