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Volume 120 - May 1972

Contents

Page 15 of 16

Letter

  • Do Mental Events Exist?

  • Stephen Krauss
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    29 January 2018, p. 474
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Letter

  • [No Title]

  • D. Bannister
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    29 January 2018, p. 474
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Correspondence

  • Brain Hypoxia

  • Sabina J. Strich
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    29 January 2018, pp. 589-590
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Correspondence

  • Brain Hypoxia

  • Christopher Ounsted
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    29 January 2018, p. 590
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Letter

  • Psychiatric In-Patients and Out-Patients

  • A. G. Mezey
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    29 January 2018, pp. 474-475
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  • The reply of Morgan and Compton in this issue of the Journal (pp. 433–6), is based on a misunderstanding of our results and of the problem investigated. This leads them into a refutation of ‘claims' never made and they buttress it with a statistical exercise of great naivety. Our findings were:

    (a) ‘… in certain important respects in-patients and out-patients are derived from different though overlapping populations.’ The most marked differences (dismissed by Morgan and Compton as 'slight’) were found among the elderly. ‘The admission rate for the over 65s of both sexes was 4 · 90 per 1,000. In contrast, increasing age was associated with a gradual fall of out-patient referral rate to 1 · 60 for the over 65s.’ We did not claim to have demonstrated the cause of these differences, but mentioned possible reasons for them.

    (b) In a district general hospital-centied psychiatric service we observed a 34 per cent increase of new out-patient referrals while hospital admissions remained static; this occurred over a period of three years, when nationally hospital admissions were still rising. We quoted in illustration some extreme figures from official statistics and the figures for the Sheffield and the Liverpool regions were extreme whether one refers to Tables 3, 11 or 13 (1). This prompted the hypothesis that an increase in new out-patient referrals can prevent admission or prove an alternative to it. No ‘claim’ was made, and we advisedly used the term 'suggestion’ to emphasize that these are ‘no more than tentative and incomplete incursions into this difficult and relatively unexplored field’ (2).

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  • Tribute to Donald Winnicott

  • J. H. Kahn
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    29 January 2018, pp. 119-120
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Letter

  • Neuropsychiatric Training

  • John M. Potter
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    29 January 2018, pp. 475-476
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Correspondence

  • Brain Hypoxia

  • O. C. J. Lippold
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    29 January 2018, p. 590
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Letter

  • The Medical Art Society

  • Isabel G. H. Wilson, Brian McGrath
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    29 January 2018, p. 476
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  • The Treatment of Obsessional Neurosis

  • Alan Freed, T. A. Kerr, Martin Roth
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    29 January 2018, pp. 590-591
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  • Are MAOI and Other Psychotropic Drugs Really Compatible?

  • Pang L. Man, Ayten Aleem
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    29 January 2018, pp. 120-121
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  • The Meaning of the Symptom in Neurosis

  • T. Kraft
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    29 January 2018, pp. 591-592
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  • Grief and the Imminent Threat of Non-Being

  • V. S. Nehama
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    29 January 2018, pp. 121-122
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  • Organic Or Psychogenic Stupor

  • J. P. Crawford
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    29 January 2018, p. 592
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  • The N.A.M.H. ‘Guidelines’

  • Michael Bury, D. Russell Davis
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    29 January 2018, p. 122
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  • [No Title]

  • Alexander Walk
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    29 January 2018, pp. 122-123
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  • Training Groups

  • I. P. Burges Watson
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    29 January 2018, pp. 123-124
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