Psychiatry

Sullivan, Harry Stack. The Meaning of Anxiety in Psychiatry and in Life.

Sereno, Renzo. Obeah: Magic and Social Structure in the Lesser Antilles.

Money, John. Delusion, Belief, and Fact.

Myers, Henry J. and Yochelson, Leon. Color-Denial in the Negro.

Carothers, J. C. A Study of Mental Derangement in Africans, and an Attempt to Explain Its Peculiarities, More Especially in Relation to the African Attitude to Life.

Sullivan, Harry Stack. The Meaning of Anxiety in Psychiatry and in Life. A patient seen many years before is referred to who made a few starts at significant communication in the interviews held soon after an anxiety attack. The attacks themselves were of remarkable severity, approaching in content a terror of immediate death, with arrest of all gross motor activity including speech, and striking superficial resemblance to the appearance of a person in incipient schizophrenic panic. There came presently other patients who suffered relatively pure attacks of anxiety. In these early cases there was little useful contact. A theory is presented: In extreme abstract, the theory holds that one comes into being as a person as a consequence of unnumbered interpersonal fields of force, and that we manifest intelligible human processes only in such interpersonal fields. Like any mammalian creature, man is endowed with the potentialities for undergoing fear, but in almost complete contradistinction to infrahuman creatures, man in the process of becoming a person always develops a great variety of processes directly related to the under going of anxiety. The article is helped by numerous figures.

Sereno, Renzo. Obeah: Magic and Social Structure in the Lesser Antilles. This paper is merely an attempt at defining the practices which occur in the Lesser Antilles and relating them to the existing social structure. The term Obeah is conceded to be a word of Gullah origin meaning witchcraft. But Obeah is not simply a superstition; it is a practice and profession. A