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 ...

Healthy dissidence is part of the stuff of politics but when does health break down into ill health and how does that ill health manifest itself? In violence, street riots, anarchism, terrorism, revolution, civil war, or in forms of deviant thought and behavior that may be regarded as manifestations of mental illness? The term dissenter came into being in 1639 to describe individuals who separa...

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...

Consultant psychiatrist Mihaela Bucur talks to Kathy Oxtoby about how photographing nature has transformed her life