man with considerable experience of teaching E.S.N, boys of secondary school age. It is practical, and from it many teachers will be able to get some help in how to get on with and teach such boys. Naturally, this presupposes that headmasters will agree with the "total" approach outline. It becomes quite clear on reading the book that what really takes place between the teacher and his pupils i...

In this article we revisit Alvin Gouldner’s The Corning Crisis o,f Wvstern Sociology ( I 970). I n part, this article is an attempt to apply Gouldner’s own lessons about the sociology of knowledge to his own work, situating it with respcct to the dominant epistemological unconscious of late 1960s American sociology as well as thc broader historical context of a still-vibrant Fordist inode of so...

an 80-year-old man developed nightmares while using citalopram for mild depression. during the first two weeks of treatment with citalopram (10 mg daily), he didn’t experience any adverse reactions. after two weeks, he developed nightmaresand vivid dreams that were repeated every night and awakened him in midnight. although the signs of depression were relatively disappeared, the patient was an...

From a psychiatrist's point of view, the definition of mental illness put forth by Ian Kennedy in his 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics is far too narrow. Clare rejects Kennedy's diagnostic criteria of dangerousness, helplessness, or subjective distress; he argues that the diagnosis of mania should be based on identifiable signs of psychological dysfunction that impair autonomy and respons...