Mental Disorders Associated with Marriage Engagements

1888 ◽  
Vol 34 (147) ◽  
pp. 394-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geo. H. Savage
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Subject

The frequency with which I am consulted about both men and women in whom an engagement of marriage has been associated with marked mental disorder, has induced me to bring the subject before this meeting of the Psychological Branch of the British Medical Association, especially as the subject naturally falls into a place in the larger subject suggested by Dr. A. Campbell Clark's papers on the perversions of the sexual and reproductive functions.

Menstruation in Relation to Mental Disorders

1928 ◽  
Vol 74 (306) ◽  
pp. 488-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. H. Healey
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
Interesting Problem ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Obstetrics And Gynaecology ◽  
Association Meeting ◽  
The Subject

In July, 1927, at a British Medical Association meeting, in the Obstetrics and Gynæcology Section, G. I. Strachan dealt with the mental side of the hygiene of menstruation. He made the statements that in cases where menstruation was influenced in mental disease it was usually in the direction of excess, and moreover he had found no justification for the text-book statement that insanity was usually accompanied by amenorrhœa. A study of the more important text-books of psychiatry reveals a paucity of information on the subject, and this has stimulated me to collect any facts which have bearing on this interesting problem.

Hypnotism in Court

1898 ◽  
Vol 44 (186) ◽  
pp. 569-570
Keyword(s):  
Medical Association ◽  
Therapeutic Agent ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Recent Action

In the newspaper reports of a recent action for slander it was stated that the British Medical Association had officially recognised hypnotism as a therapeutic agent. The medical man whose evidence led to this incorrect statement has shown that his remarks had been misapprehended by the journalist. It is of some importance to recall the circumstances, to show how the matter really stands. The committee appointed to report upon the subject included well-known names, and after a considerable interval presented their conclusions. They expressed themselves as satisfied of the genuine nature of the hypnotic state, and were of opinion that, as a therapeutic agent, hypnotism was frequently effective in removing pain, procuring sleep, and alleviating many functional ailments. As to its permanent efficacy in the treatment of habitual drunkenness, the evidence before the committee was encouraging, but not conclusive. They specially indicated that care in the employment of hypnotism was necessary, and suggested important limitations.

Mental Disorders Associated with Pernicious Anæmia

1931 ◽  
Vol 77 (318) ◽  
pp. 549-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman R. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Pernicious Anaemia ◽  
Intestinal Disease ◽  
Subacute Combined Degeneration ◽  
Blood Disease ◽  
The Subject

Since the introduction of the liver treatment for pernicious anæmia some four years ago that disease has received considerable publicity. It has been generally recognized as having three main clinical manifestations. Thus it may show itself as a blood disease, as a gastro-intestinal disease, or as a nervous lesion (subacute combined degeneration of the cord). It is, however, by no means generally recognized that pernicious anæmia has yet another way of manifesting itself, viz., by the occurrence of mental disorder. The object of this paper is to emphasize this fourth aspect of pernicious anæmia. In this country the subject has not hitherto received the consideration which is due to it. Nevertheless, a number of observers in other countries have shown, both by their own personal observations and from statistics, that mental disorders are frequently met with in the course of pernicious anæmia. The degree of mental affection varies in different cases. There may be merely a modification of character, with irritability and changing mood. W. Richardson would include in this mild group many patients described as uncooperative.

Section of Psychology

1880 ◽  
Vol 26 (115) ◽  
pp. 471-474
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
The Body ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Made In

Mr. Braid appears likely to have justice done to him at last. Some years ago we pointed out the important bearing of hypnotism on mental disorders in this Journal, in an article entitled “Artificial Insanity.” Subsequently, in 1872, the writer, in his work on the “Influence of the Mind upon the Body,” insisted on the interest and influence of hypnotism in mental therapeutics. The progress of scientific truth, if certain, is rather slow. It has taken some forty years for the British Medical Association to repair the error then made in refusing to hear a paper by Mr. Braid on his discoveries, when it met at Manchester.—[D. H. T.]

scholarly journals The misguided attempt to replace psychopathological evaluation with DSM

Salud Mental ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Lóyzaga Mendoza ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Therapeutic Approach ◽  
Correct Diagnosis ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Clinical Interview ◽  
Objective Information ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
The Subject

The syllabus for training psychiatrists in the 21st century has changed radically in recent decades. Although advances in neurosciences using various techniques to address the etiology and physiopathology of mental disorders have provided objective information to locate them in their corresponding place in medical pathology, certain essential elements of medicine have been lost, such as a broad clinical interview and a detailed semiology, both of which are essential to arriving at a correct diagnosis and providing an accurate therapeutic approach. On the subject of loss, there is an increasing disincorporation from study programs in the specialty from disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, and anthropology, which nourishes psychiatry and give it a crucial multidisciplinary quality to understand the person suffering a mental disorder.

scholarly journals The effect of X-radiation on the spermatogenesis of the Guinea-pig

1929 ◽  
Vol 104 (731) ◽  
pp. 351-370 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Association ◽  
Guinea Pig ◽  
State Government ◽  
Rotunda Hospital ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
Free State ◽  
X Rays ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
The Subject

The effect of X-rays on tissues and cells has been the subject of study by many observers, dating back to the time when Leopold Freund, of Vienna, burnt the first patient. We were led to study this problem merely from the hope that the more modern cytological techniques might reveal some new facts with reference to the mystery of the effect of X-rays on the cell. Moreover, we hoped to collect some interesting facts about the mechanism of sperm formation. We are grateful to the British Medical Association for a grant in aid of this work; to Dr. Bethel Solomons, the Master, and Dr. M. MacDonagh, the Radiologist of the Rotunda Hospital, for the use of the hospital X-ray plant and to many people for the loan of literature. One of us (S. W.) has received a Research Scholarship from the Irish Free State Government, whom we most cordially thank.

On the Causes of the Increase of Suicide

1899 ◽  
Vol 45 (190) ◽  
pp. 451-466
Author(s):  
William W. Ireland
Keyword(s):  
Medical Association ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
The Subject

It would perhaps be allowable to take it for granted that the number of suicides has been steadily increasing in most of those countries which furnish us with trustworthy statistics, but after the discussion in Section E at the last meeting of the British Medical Association, I think it better to go over some of the reasons which have led me to subscribe to the view generally received by those who have carefully inquired into the subject.

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