Notes

The SALMON COMMITTEE ON PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HYGIENE of the New York Academy of Medicine has named Dr. Emilio Mira, professor of psychiatry at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and formerly full professor of psychiatry at the University of Barcelona, Spain, as the Salmon Lecturer for 1942. The lectures will be held on three successive Friday evenings November 6, November 13 and November 20, in the New York Academy of Medicine Building, 2 East 103rd Street, New York City. Members of the medical profession and their friends are invited to attend.

Dr. Mira, who was director of the Neuropsychiatric Services of the Loyalist Forces during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 and has studied and taught in Germany, France, Switzerland and England, has entitled his lectures Psychiatry at War. In his first lecture on November 6 he will discuss the psychopathology of fear and anger reactions in wartime. In his second lecture on November 13, he will discuss the duties of the psychiatrist in wartime and his personal experiences in the Spanish War. In his third lecture on November 20 he will lecture on new techniques for detecting and controlling 'fighting power' in individuals and armies.

From his experience in wartime Germany Dr. Mira has gained a wide knowledge of the German Army's organization of psychological warfare and racial theories and the use of war psychiatry in Germany.

Dr. Mira is the author of numerous scientific works, including a comprehensive Manual of Psychiatry which was written in three months and is now used widely in Spain and in South America. He has edited several psychiatric journals, including Archives of Neurology of Buenos Aires and Pedagogical