Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

S. 339-486; 8°. Geheftet.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex.; Einband etwas berieben; geringe Gebrauchsspuren. - INHALT : Editor's Notes - Psychiatric Aspects of the Prevention of Nuclear War - Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (U SA ) - An understanding of the socio-psychiatric factors bearing on the problem of war and peace may be necessary if civilization is to survive - Discussions: - Arthur Lall (India) - The valuable contents of their report justify further research which could be conducted with advantage in collaboration with other behaviorial scientists - Dmitri D Venediktov (U S S R ) - The real causes of war lie in social and economic factors - Anthony J Wiener (U S A ) - The report is demonstrably incomplete, tendentious, and inconclusive - Amitai Etzioni (U S A ) - While more sophisticated than most psychiatric studies and an excellent contribution to the field, the relation between interpersonal and national processes are not sufficiently explored - Biochemical Theories of Schizophrenia Seymour Kety (U S A ) - Many of the current biochemical hypotheses in schizophrenia are original and attractive, but evidence directly implicating any one of them is hardly compelling - Discussions: - Robert G Heath (U S A ) - Kety's censure of ceruloplasmin and taraxein investigations is invalid - D W Woolley (U S A) - Kety does not appreciate the fact that new scientific discoveries come stumbling into view, not fully formed nor completely ready to defend themselves from any possible attack - Michael Shepherd (England) - The coda on genetics is the most important facet of the review - D B Losovski (U S S R ) - Biological investigations of homogenous subcategories of schizophrenia is a promising methodological approach - Henry Mcllwain (England) - While admirably objective, the review is not concerned with theories of schizophrenia and, insofar as it is concerned with biochemical theories, is curiously inverted - Jacques S Gottlieb (U S A ) - The review, critical though it is, suggests hypotheses which can only stimulate the investigator to redouble his efforts - The Independence of Neurotic Depression and Endogenous Depression - L G Kiloh and R F Garside (U K ) - A factor analysis of symptoms of depressed patients showed clustering into two groups suggesting that endogenous and neurotic depression are distinct nosological entities - Discussions: - Gerald Klerman (U S A ) - Despite methodological limitations the study is an important research endeavor - E S Averbuch (U S S R ) - Kiloh and Garside have successfully shown that endogenous and reactive depression are independent in terms of the genesis and the essence of the illness - Twin Research and Psychiatry Erik Essen-Moller, M D (Sweden) - Twin research has a unique capacity for sifting and simplifying the intricate problems of the nature-nurture controversy - Discussions: - Eiji Inouye (Japan) - Concordance rates are the starting point of research aiming at the clarification of the etiology of mental disorders; the rates themselves are not the goal of twin research in psychiatry - Martin L Pilot (U S A ) - Application of concepts closer to psychoanalytic theory should increase the value of twin studies - David Rosenthal (U S A ) - Past twin studies of schizophrenia have overestimated the genetic factor - Letters to The Editor - Recent Books.