Psychiatry

1. Sullivan, Harry Stack. Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry.

2. Rioch, David Mck. The Neurophysiology of the Corpus Striatum and Globus Pallidus.

1. sullivan, harry stack. Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry. This article consists of five lectures and totals one hundred and seventeen pages. The first lecture deals with basic conceptions. The three sorts of psychiatrists consider mental processes as epiphenomena, disorders as biological or spiritual inferiority, and those who accept the mental as scientifically valid but largely unexplored. One branch reaches back through Hippocratic medicine; it involves observing and influencing the course of mental disorders. Its Renaissance begins with Pinel. The second branch is coeval with man as a social being; medicine men, prophets, etc. The mésalliance of neurology and psychiatry has by no means been dissolved. The witchcraft idea carries through in that it is still more respectable to be treated by a neurologist for a nervous breakdown than to consult a psychiatrist about one's difficulties in living. Three great modern figures are Freud, Meyer, and White. Their achievements are reviewed. The second lcture deals with the human organism and its necessary environment. There are four conceptions. For the general biologist man is the most complexly integrated organism thus far evolved. For the psychobiologist, man is an individual organism the total-function of which is mentally integrated life. For the social psychologist, man is the human animal transformed by social experience into a human being. For the psychiatrist as a student of interpersonal relations, man is the tangible substrate of life. Development of the child is reviewed, and into adulthood. The third lecture deals with developmental syndromes. The epochs that lead up to adolescence are closely if obscurely related to somatic maturation. Over the world the puberty change would seem to occur from as early as the age of eight to as late as the twenties. Environm