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Dr. Seidenberg has written extensively on the area of drug promotion, with particular emphasis on the derogatory depiction of women in advertising campaigns and on the expansion of the definition of illnesses requiring drug therapy solutions. During his oral presentation, Dr. Seidenberg produced a slide show of ads and commented on their content. For publication purposes, his remarks were edited to include parts of his written testimony as well as portions of the question and answer session. As a physician, he presents some interesting comments on the effects of advertising on doctors.

One type of hyperhidrosis has been called mental, emotional, and intentional by dermatologists and neurologists. They have noted that a profuse, cold, clammy sweating occurs on the palms and soles, or in the axillae, during mentally stressful activities. It is always bilateral, and usually unrelated to external temperature changes or internal pathological conditions. Often the palms and feet are involved together, but the condition can be confined to one or the other. The sweating in the axillae appears to be independent of that in other areas.Kuno6 noted that thermal sweating appears universally over the general body surface whereas "mental" sweating appears over the palms, soles, and axillae. He found that this condition existed in 1 out of every 300 Japanese students he examined. Everything they touched became wet, which interfered with many vocational activities. Kuno attempted to explain this phenomenon with

Although the capacity to test reality is variable in any person, it appears to be critically diminished in those who are labeled "borderline" or "psychotic." The classical scientific literature examines this process mainly as an intrapsychic phenomenon. Freud1 wrote that in both neurosis and psychosis there is a withdrawal of the ego from reality. In economic terms, there is a withdrawal of preconscious cathexis. He said, ". . . . neurosis does not deny the existence of reality, it merely tries to ignore it ; psychosis denies it and tries to substitute something else for it." Freud called the normal or healthy reaction a combination of these two: "It denies reality as little as neurosis, but then, like a psychosis, is concerned with effecting a change in it. This expedient normal attitude leads naturally to some active achievement in the outer world and is not content like psychosis, with establishing the alteration

Presents several letters to the editor related to the world politics. Information related to the public demonstration in Washington D.C. on October 21, 1967; Comments on the political condition in Vietnam;" Evaluation of the political crisis in Israel.