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The article presents abstracts of psychological research. They include "Operant Conditioning in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa: A review and retrospective study of 11 cases," "Manic Psychosis in Connection with Q-fever" and "The Prevalence of Suicide and Parasuicide ('Attempted Suicide') in Edinburgh."

The article presents an introduction to a series of papers on basic psychoanalytic theories.

The article presents a comment of the study conducted by psychiatrists E. Grünthal and G. E. Störing's case of organic amnesic syndrome. It questions the memory retention defects due to the symptoms reported by Grünthall and Störing's original paper on its theoretical and practical importance of the case. Carbon monoxide intoxication of the patient was the reason for both psychiatrists to conclude on the patient's emotional, temperamental and memory defects. However, professor H. Scheller re-investigated the case and doubted that organic amnesic syndrome was attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning since there was no similar case reported and no neurological signs in intoxication with severe psychiatric disturbance.

The article presents the abstract of the paper "Psycho-Analysis and The Treatment of the Psychoses," by Thomas Freeman. An outline of the psycho-analytic theory of psychosis is presented. The emphasis is laid on its psycho-biological and developmental orientation. In addition, a description of Anna Freud's Metapsychological Profile suitably adapted for cases of psychosis is presented.

An abstract of the article "Study Problems in Uganda Secondary School Student" is presented. The paper examines the background history, present psychological status and group treatment results of 25 secondary school boys in Uganda who had been impaired in their studies by a multitude of symptoms commonly associated with Bran Fag Syndrome.

The article discusses the distinction between individuality and personal in reference to the principles of Saint Thomas. In a simultaneous reaction against both totalitarian and individualistic errors that the concept of the human person, incorporated as such into society, be opposed to both the idea of the totalitarian state and that of the sovereignty of the individual.