A handsome appearance is greatly prized in our contemporary society and persistently portrayed by the advertising media as a sure road to happiness and success. Physical attractiveness may indeed often be associated with a sense of confidence and self-esteem, but, as Marilyn Munroe's tragic life and death so clearly illustrate, these personal qualities are not invariable accompaniments of good ...

Various types of killings occur within family matrices. The news media highlight the dramatic components, and even novels now use it as a theme. 1 However, a psychiatric understanding remains elusive. Not all killings within a family are familicidal. For want of a better term, I have called the killing of more than one member of a family by another family member "familicide." The destruction of...

THE LAST 10 years have been marked by progress in the study of epilepsy. A new international classification of epilepsy has been put forward (Gastaut et al., 1964). Succinamides have been introduced for the treatment of petit mal (Heathfield & Jewsbery, 1961) and have become an established treatment, while sulthiame (Fenton, Serafetinedes & Pond, 1964; Liu, 1966) and carbamazepine (Bird et al.,...