Introduction Women's organizing in Canada in the last twenty years has netted some significant gains. Perhaps the 1988 Supreme Court decision declaring the abortion law unconstitutional is the most striking, but a balance sheet would also include other legislative gains in the areas of equal pay, affirmative action, sexual assault, family law and sexual harassment. Increases in women's union ac...

A selective review of the current methods of pain measurement and validation (psychophysical methods, verbal and analogical scales, psychological tests) is presented with emphasis on patient selection for surgical pain relief, and analysis of outcome. The identification of homogeneous groups of patients with clinical and research objectives is prevented by the lack of a reliable pain scale, bas...

In spite of a wide recommendation of supervision in training and continuous education in mental health, professional literature on the problem is relatively scarce. Majority of publications listed in the data bases concern rather clinical supervision then specific psychotherapy supervision. Supervision has originated within psychoanalysis, as continuation of training analysis, to develop later ...