A Psychiatrist on Religion

A Symposium on Religion : Religion and Society

theoretical expectations. The assumption is that along with modernization and economic development, adherence to religious world views (seen to be a relic of the past) gradually dissipate, as they have in other advanced societies. But they haven’t in the United States. In fact, the importance of religious commitments and religious organizations to American society increased over the last severa...

A Psychiatrist Looks at Tuberculosis

branches of medicine. WVe can no loniger afford to lead an isolated existence, but must recognise that there is as great a job to be done extramurally , by publicity and by action, as well as within the walls of the mental hospitals. TrHs is one of the most useful little reference books that the G.P. could carry with him. It is truly pocket size, measuring 41 inches by 2j inches. The fourteenth...

A study on the definitions of religion from another view

A Psychiatrist Looks at Tuberculosis

Wittkower, M.D. With an Introduction by John Rickman, M.D. National Association for Prevention of Tuberculosis, Tavistock House North, W.C.I. 12s. 6d. Dr. Eric Wittkower is known throughout the world as an expert research psychiatrist in the psychosomatic field. The puzzling variety of reactions of the human body to the invasion of tuberculosis is made more clear by this study. The findings of ...

Why refer to a psychiatrist?

practice is now firmly established. Numerous studies have demonstrated the high prevalence of psychiatric disorder among general hospital patients, which is up to twice that of the population at large. Furthermore, psychological problems that may not amount to a specific psychiatric disorder have an important bearing on the presentation and course of many medical conditions. These problems incl...