THERE is a great deal of discussion and speculation to-day about post-war conditions, and especially about the future of our own profession. Post-war planning and reconstruction, the re-moulding of our spitfires and hurricanes back into pots and pans, the return of our fighting men from the adventures and excitements of war to the steady pursuits of peace, present us with problems which we will...

The proliferation of ever more sophisticated means, channels and strategies of communication is a meaningful indicator of the centrality of this process, and, at the same time, a driving force in the field. This process of proliferation is matched by the increasing number of perspectives: anthropological, sociological, psychological, neurological, semiotic, linguistic, cybernetic, and so on by ...

BACKGROUND The present work assesses the effect of immediate breast reconstruction (IBR), deferred breast reconstruction (DBR), and no breast reconstruction on the psychological impact. PATIENTS AND METHODS Standard questionnaires were used to determine the psychological impact suffered by patients who underwent IBR, DBR and no reconstruction, their degree of satisfaction with the results ach...

OBJECTIVE To assess associations of coping and family functioning with psychosocial adjustment in siblings of pediatric cancer patients at 1, 6, 12, and 24 months after diagnosis. METHODS Eighty-three siblings (ages 7-19 years) participated. Effects on anxiety, quality of life, behavioral-emotional problems, and emotional reactions to the illness were investigated. Data-analysis was performed...

BACKGROUND This paper compares adolescents with primary opioid problem use (OPU) to those with primary marijuana or alcohol problem use (MAPU) who received up to six months of Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA), an empirically supported treatment. METHODS Intake clinical characteristics, treatment implementation measures, and clinical outcomes of two substance problem groups ...

dealt mainly with theoretical problems, psychological explanations and classifications. This earlier edition departed most from the traditional approach by including two extensive chapters on projective techniques and psychotherapy. These chapters embody the modern psychological approach to the field of mental deficiency and provoke much stimulating thought on the traditionally accepted I.Q., r...

pr. Sarason has attempted to cover the whole ? ^ of mental deficiency in this book, and this has Evolved deliberate emphasis of certain types and a rather cursory dismissal of others. It is not easy to write such a book for clinical and ^?cial workers, psychiatrists and psychologists, and Wiere the whole emphasis tends to be on the Psychology of mental deficiency it is questionable Primary amen...

Her warning against telling the depressive "to pull himself together" or "humouri0^ the paranoid is still necessary in some quarters, although many points mention should already be known to an experienced parish priest. In obsessive illness aI\ reactive depression, the minister can play a most useful part in giving a Pafie{? hearing, comfort and re-assurance. "Anxiety-prone" seems a most timely...