Lajos Lévy (Budapest, 1875 - London, April 7, 1961) was not a practising psychoanalyst, nevertheless, he played an important role in the history of Hungarian psychoanalysis. He studied medicine at universities Budapest, Vienna and Tübingen. After graduating, engaged Heidelberg for few years. Returning home, became student friend Béla Székács Rókus Hospital, served while Worker's Insurance Insti...

AA. Brill, “the first American psychoanalyst,” can be regarded as the founder of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), and in today’s APsaA the influence of Brill’s personality is still visible. Clear traces of the ways questions of status and inclusion determined his outlook on life can still be found in how the issues of certification and membership are framed in the APsaA today. H...

Overseas migration of the small brown planthopper, Laodelphax striatellus (Fallén), occurs during the winter wheat harvest season in East Asia. Knowing the take-off time of emigrating L. striatellus is crucial for predicting such migrations with a simulation technique because winds, carriers of migratory insects, change continuously. Several methods were used in China and Japan from late May to...

I recently met an anaesthetist called Robin Youngson who has had a most unusual career. He was brought up in various parts of the British Empire, as what he describes as an ‘army brat’. He went to an English boarding school where he was badly bullied, before going to university and becoming an engineer. He then worked in oil exploration, saving up money in order to study medicine. He emigrated ...