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The article focuses on the psychological problems associated A-bomb attack. Acute anxiety serves as a dominant reaction to the atomic explosions. The emotional excitement of some survivors from such attack reaches a level that there is a temporary loss of inhibitory control over primitive. In other cases, the acute emotional disturbance has taken the form of profound apathy and depression. Severe forms of emotional shock are to be expected among survivors who have experienced being knocked down, injured by fire and witnessing the death of a member of the immediate family.

The article presents information on the efficiency of psychobiologic inquiry in the researches related to exercise and sport sciences. Psychological and physiological study of man is necessary as man is a complex physiological apparatus and at the same time a self-aware individual capable of verbal communication. Majority of physical scientists simply have opted to employ orientations which are predominantly biologic or psychologic in nature. Psychological depression represents one of modern man's most significant health problems. More recently the relationship of depression and variables such as age, height, weight, percent body fat, muscular strength and physical working capacity has been evaluated in normal adult males. Psychobiologic approach is advocated for three reasons. First, there is a wealth of psychological and medical literature which attests to the indivisible nature of mind and body, second, prediction can be enhanced by employing multivariate as opposed to bivariate techniques and third, a series of investigations dealing with depression, anxiety, hypnosis and athletic performance reviewed demonstrate the efficacy of psychobiologic inquiry.

The article discusses national neurosis in the U.S. The author claims that there are several factors that affect neurotic disorder, including war, calamity and natural disaster. He adds that this problem could be treated in a supportive and sympathetic atmosphere wherein the neurotic individuals have the courage to examine the sources of their inner dissatisfaction and anxiety. According to him, the fear and anxiety experienced by this neurotic person are the products of conflict and uncertainty especially when they do not know what role to play in the preservation of world peace.

This article presents a study which discusses various issues related to nonverbal communication and counseling. Recent literature in the area of nonverbal communication has stressed the importance of nonverbal cues (NVCs) in therapeutic interaction. The article author addresses to the basic question of whether individuals with counseling training do, in fact, make better use of NVCs. Such a skill has obvious implications for therapist training. The study specifically focuses on whether therapists can recognize NVCs for depression any more effectively than people who are not acting currently as therapists.

This article presents information on male alcoholics. There has been a paucity of research concerning the ability of clinical populations to perceive the relative position of themselves and other patients along certain psychological dimensions. The primary purpose of this study was to determine the degree and direction of distortion between alcoholics' self-ratings of depression and the ratings made by staff members and other patients as well as ranks based upon an objective measure of depression.

This paper shows how the techniques of neutralization function to rationalize involvement in abortion and thus avoid, alleviate, or eliminate any associated guilt, depression, or anxiety. A confluence of forces such as abortion legalization, advancing abortion technology, the establishment of abortion as a valid medical procedure, population pressures, scarcity of resources, and quality of life considerations have endowed the rationalizations for abortion with considerable authenticity. Difficulties experienced by physicians and nurses in implementing abortion procedures plus the growing strength of pro-life groups suggest the potential vulnerability of the techniques for justifying abortion participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study on the response of depressed patients who were treated with methylamphetamine. The study has noted that there was a strong tendency for patients to feel better irrespective of diagnosis and no significant difference was found between the responses of patients with endogenous and neurotic depression to methylamphetamine. The patients response to intravenous methylamphetamine would appear to have no diagnostic or prognostic significance in patients with depressive illness.

The article presents a study on the independent measures of psychiatric illness on flat dwellers and house dwellers. The study has noted that a low level of psychiatric illness in women aged 30-39 has been assumed because they were not confined to their flats by their children, who were of school age. In this study, neither age nor having children affected mental illness, contradicting the commonly held view that the supervision of children is a contributory factor. It has indicated that flat dwelling did not cause an increase in psychiatric illness, nor did familiarity cause an improvement or increased exposure a deterioration.

The article presents a study on use of bilateral electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) for relief of depressive illness on psychiatric patients. This study has indicated that learning ability has improved during the first hours after ECT on psychiatric patients. It has noted that the ability of the patients to retain newly learned material was initially impaired and then improved during the hours after each ECT treatment, and the ability to retain material for a 30-minute interval was impaired to about the same extent and improved at about the same rate after each of the first four ECT treatment.

The article presents a study on the outlook of depressive people towards the significance of life events. It examines various factors like the severity of the depression, degree of recovery, and the significant experiences of the patients. The results of the Social Readjustment Rating Questionnaire used in the study reveals that life events were viewed by neurotic depressed in-patients as uniformly more stressful than non-depressed subjects. It likewise concludes that several patients have experienced significant events excluding death of spouse, divorce, and jail term. Meanwhile, it notes that the responses of depressed patients reflect a more inherent characteristic, but require more investigations.

The article presents the study that examines whether the urinary excretion of cyclic adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP) by patients under carefully controlled metabolic ward conditions increased with their recovery from a depressive psychosis. An investigation was made on 14 physically healthy female patients with depressive psychosis. These patients were interviewed wherein each interviewer made a clinical diagnosis and rated the patient through diagnostic scales. The urine collection of the 12 out of 14 patients were complete and rated free from depression when the second investigation was made. It was found that the urinary excretion of cyclic AMP among the psychotic patients increased significantly with recovery.

The article focuses on the study that measures psychoticism of patients with a diagnosed psychotic illness. It involves 77 patients with firmly diagnosed psychotic illness, were in-patients, were aged 17-65 inclusive, had scores of 15 or more on the Mill Hill Synonyms Selection Test, and were testable and cooperative. However, others have specific diagnoses, including 47 schizophrenic, 5 paranoid, 9 manic, and 16 depressive. It is found that those patients who had delusions of disintegration, thought disorder and affective flattening had significantly higher scores than those psychotics without these signs, within the psychotic group.

The article focuses on the study that determines the significance of using antidepressant medication in general practice. It involves three separate groups of patients who are investigated, wherein each of them had been diagnosed by their family doctor as suffering from depression. It is observed that 4 percent of all patients seen in the surgeries were thought to be suffering from depression. Thus, after the analysis of the treatments prescribed to the groups suggests that psychotropic drugs are often used inappropriately in general practice. It is therefore suggested that the potential for the traditional family doctor-patient relationship in the setting of urban general practice is strictly limited.

The article focuses on the study that determines the significance of the P scale. It is used on a sample of abnormal offenders in a maximum security hospital, which is aimed to determine whether it was a measure of a unitary factor, to investigate its relationship to other inventory measures, and to determine whether it would discriminate between psychotic and non-psychotic offenders. The reliability of the P scale is calculated through the Kuder-Richardson Formula 20. However, it shows that it is rather an unreliable scale, whose items do not measure a unitary factor orthogonal to N and E. Thus, it is therefore found that the P scale does not measure the dimension of psychoticism, but it might be interpreted as a measure of a broad semantic dimension of evaluation.

The article focuses on the study that determines the pattern of hostility in affective illness. It aims to discover whether patients with unipolar and bipolar depression and those with mania are different in their aggressiveness as measured by the Hostility and Direction of Hostility Questionnaire. Meanwhile, it also aims to provide further evidence of the changing pattern of hostility in affective illness after recovery. In six groups of patients tested, 3 showed active symptoms at the time of testing, while 3 had recovered from a recent illness.

The article presents the study that examines the response to pulse electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the two varieties of depression. The results obtained from the pulse-treated patients was compared to 100 depressives consecutively treated with sinusoidal ECT immediately before this study. An evaluation was made on 53 endogenous and 22 neurotic depressives, given pulse ECT before and after treatment on a four-point global scale and on Hamilton's Scale. The Self Rating Test and the Purpose in Life Scale were likewise completed by 15 endogenous and 14 neurotic depressives. After ECT, 72% of endogenous depressives were found to be socially recovered than neurotic depressives. It was suggested that pulse ECT is beneficial in endogenous depression.

The article presents the study that assesses the efficacy of lithium salts in preventing the affective attacks of patients with schizoaffective psychoses. This research involved a detailed description of the methods of lithium preventive therapy used at the Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. The study was conducted on 100 manic-depressive patients with affective phases relapsing more than one year. The findings of a long-term use of lithium salts were determined on the changes in the number of phases, the number of days of the disease, and the frequency of hospital admissions of the patients. It was found that the similar regularities in illness development were observed in the patients who were ineffectively treated with lithium salts.

The article examines the occurrence of suicidal feelings in the general population of a psychiatric facility in Great Britain. Under the study, a population sample of 720 psychiatric patients were surveyed and interviewed. The data obtained from the survey, and the prevalence of the suicidal phenomena and their relationships to other data that include demographic characteristics, psychiatric symptom, somatic illness, social adjustment and life stress are described. 8.9 percent of the patients reported suicidal feelings, one percent seriously considered suicide, while 0.6 percent made an actual suicide attempt. On the other hand, 3.5 percent reported that they felt that life is not worthwhile, while, 2.8 percent wished they were dead. Only one percent have no thought of taking their lives