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Title: Of Divers Things: Preliminary Note on the Dynamics of Scuba Diving
Author: Roderic Gorney, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is Staff Psychiatrist at the Neuropsychiatric Institute, California State Department of Mental Hygiene. Dr. Gorney is a scuba diver.
Louis Jolyon West, M.D.
Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. He has made many contributions to experimental psychopathology and research on problems of consciousness, including studies of hypnosis, brainwashing, sleep, dreams, sensory isolation, dissociative phenomena and hallucinations.
George L. Engel, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Rochester and a Career Research Awardee of the U.S. Public Health Service. He is a member of the Western New York Psychoanalytic Society and the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has published numerous papers on high altitude decompression sickness and many more in the general field of psychosomatic medicine. Dr. Engel is the author of two books, Fainting and Psychological Development in Health and Disease.
Robert Howard
Biotechnical Engineer in Litton Space Sciences Laboratories, Beverly Hills, California. Since his academic training in the biological sciences he has worked more than ten years in the field of underwater research and commercial diving with experience as Chief Diving Officer in the evaluation of deep diving equipment and underwater construction. He is currently certified as an Underwater Instructor by principal undersea operating agencies, and as Divemaster in the Los Angeles County Advanced Instructors Program, he teaches the instructors course. He is a member of the Marine Technology Society, the International Oceanographic Foundation and the American Geophysical Union and has authored two books and many papers dealing with diving techniques and hydrobiophysics.
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