Psychiatry

1. SZUREK, STANISLAUS A. Notes on the Genesis of Psychopathic Personality Trends.

2. Fox, HENRY. Somatic Symbolization Versus Psychosomatic Dualism.

3. FRANK, JEROME D. The Contributions of Topological and Vector Psychology to Psychiatry.

4. BOISEN, ANTON T. The Form and Content of Schizophrenic Thinking.

5. WATSON, DAVID LINDSAY. Selecting Mechanism as a Concept for Psychiatry.

6. BRENMAN, MARGAKET. Experiments in the Hypnotic Production of Anti-Social and Self-Injurious Behavior.

7. LEVY, DAVID M. Maternal Overprotection, VI.

1. SZUREK, STANISLAUS A. Notes on the Genesis of Psychopathic Personality Trends.—If there is any agreement among those who have written about those who are called psychopathic personalities it is in that they are deficient in moral sense. It appears that the defect is in the conscience. Regularly the more important parent, usually the mother, although the father is always in some way involved, has been seen unconsciously to encourage the amoral or anti-social behavior of the child. The needs of the parent are vicariously gratified. Because these needs are unacceptable to the parent himself, the child eventually is frustrated.

2. Fox, HENRY. Somatic Symbolization Versus Psychosomatic Dualism.—In patients with physical complaints, the common denominator of all the patterns of behavior is the use of the body functions and body parts as intimately meaningful factors in the life history. The patient insists that his complaints arise from an entirely local malfunction. A dualistic psychosomatic view of the body-mind problem tends to cut asunder the things which belong together but also brings together functions which should be kept distinctly separate. As clear an understanding as possible of the symbolizing function illustrated in the kind of clinical problems that have been discussed here would therefore seem to bring one closer to the biological actualities than a false emphasis on anatomical-physiological entities upon which the psyche has been engrafted by