The British Journal of Psychiatry: Volume 127 -

Chromosome Examination of Male Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital
Johannes Nielsen
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29 January 2018, pp. 404-406
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The present study has been made with the purpose of studying the frequency of chromosome aberrations in a male psychiatric hospital population, especially in order to look for possible associations between minor chromosome aberrations such as variations in short arms or satellites in D or G chromosomes as well as in Y length on the one hand and mental illness and criminality on the other.

Studies of Schizophrenia. Edited by M. H. Lader, British Journal of Psychiatry Special Publication No. 10. Headley Brothers Ltd., Ashford, Kent, for the W.P.A. and the R.C.Psych. 1975. Pp. x+160. Illustrated. Price £3.00.
F. Post
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29 January 2018, p. 506
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American Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume I ‘Foundations of Psychiatry’. Edited by S. Arieti. Pp. xiii and 1, 270 (£14.25). Volume III ‘Adult Clinical Psychiatry’. Edited by S. Arieti and E. B. Brody. Pp. xi and 896 (£11.25). New York: Basic Books.
Michael Gelder
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29 January 2018, pp. 90-92
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Mental Health Care in Rural India: A Study of Existing Patterns and Their Implications for Future Policy
R. L. Kapur
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29 January 2018, pp. 286-293
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Three separate studies were carried out to examine the patterns of mental health care in an Indian village. The first examined the conceptual frameworks of the various traditional and modern healers. The second was an attitude study inquiring about the type of healer favoured for psychiatric consultation. The third was a population survey in which every person with one or more symptoms was asked if he or she had consulted anyone for relief of distress.
Besides the modern doctors there were three types of traditional healers: Vaids, practising an empirical system of indigenous medicine; Mantarwadis, curing through astrology and charms; and Patris, who acted as mediums for spirits and demons.
It was found that a large majority (59 per cent) of those with symptoms had consulted someone. The consultation was determined more by the severity of illness than by socio-demographic factors. Modern doctors were more popular, but most people consulted both traditional and modern healers without regards to the latter's contradictory conceptual framework. Literacy and other sociodemographic factors had no influence on the type of consultation.
A conclusion was reached that any scheme for introducing modern psychiatry into rural areas should make use of the locally popular healers, both traditional or modern.

Effect of ADP on PGE1 Formation in Blood Platelets from Patients with Depression, Mania and Schizophrenia
Y. H. Abdulla, K. Hamadah
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29 January 2018, pp. 591-595
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Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) stimulates the synthesis of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) in lysed platelets from normal subjects, patients with affective illness but not in platelets from cases of schizophrenia. The stimulation is concentration-dependent and follows a curve which is mildly sigmoid in the normal, markedly sigmoid in depression and hyperbolic in mania.

Current Psychiatric Therapies. Edited by Jules Masserman. London: Grune and Stratton. 1974. Pp. xiii+285. Index 13 pp. Price £10.30.
J. P. Leff
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29 January 2018, p. 185
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Drug: Use Epidemiological and Sociological Approaches. By Eric Josephson and Eleanor E. Carroll New York, London, Sydney, Toronto: John Wiley & Sons. 1974. Pp. xiii+366. Index 15 pp. Price £7.30.
M. M. Glatt
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29 January 2018, p. 407
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Psychiatry for the Poor: Colney Hatch Asylum—Friern Hospital 1851–1973. By Richard Hunter and Ida MacAlpine. London: Wm. Dawson. 1974. Pp. 264. Price £4.50 (£1.50 paperback).
Alexander Walk
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29 January 2018, pp. 92-93
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Manuel de Psychiatrie. By Henri Ey, P. Bernard and Ch. Brisset. Paris: Masson & Cie. 1974. Pp. 1,272. Price 160 F.
Philip Evans
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29 January 2018, pp. 294-295
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New Perspectives in Schizophrenia. Edited by Alistair Forrest and James Affleck. London: Churchill Livingstone. 1975. Pp. vii+251. Index 7 pp. Price £5.50.
S. Greer
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29 January 2018, p. 506
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The Relationship of Plasma to Erythrocyte Lithium Levels in Patients Taking Lithium Carbonate
C. R. Lee, S. E. Hill, M. Dimitrakoudi, F. A. Jenner, R. J. Pollitt
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29 January 2018, pp. 596-598
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Plasma and erythrocyte lithium levels have been determined repeatedly in twelve patients taking lithium carbonate for affective disorders. In any individual the plot of the plasma lithium level against erythrocyte/plasma ratio is linear, but the ratio can either increase or decrease with increasing plasma lithium concentration. Erythrocyte/plasma ratio is an unsound basis for comparing individual responses to lithium.

Psychiatric Diagnosis. By R. A. Woodruff, D. W. Goodwin and S. B. Guze. Oxford University Press. 1974. Pp. xii+212. Index 9 pp. Price £2.50 (paperback).
R. E. Kendell
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29 January 2018, pp. 185-186
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Psychological Treatments - The Large Group: Dynamics and Therapy. Edited by Lionel Kreeger. London: Constable. 1975. Pp. 344. Index 10 pp. Price £5.00.
J. P. Watson
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29 January 2018, p. 407
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Creative Malady: Illness in the Lives and Minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. By George Pickering. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1974. Pp. 327. Price £5.25.
Eliot Slater
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29 January 2018, p. 93
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Medical Nemesis. The Expropriation of Health. By Ivan Illich. London: Calder & Boyars. 1975. Pp. 183. Price £1.50.
J. L. T. Birley
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29 January 2018, pp. 507-508
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Deviant Sexual Behaviour: Modification and Assessment. By John Bancroft. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1974. Pp. ix+233. Index 22 pp. Price £5.00.
Michael J. Crowe
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29 January 2018, p. 295
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Adolescence. Psychology, Psychopathology and Psychotherapy. By Derek Miller. New York: Jason Aronson. 1974. Pp. xvii+529. Index 12 pp. Price £15.00.
W. Ll. Parry-Jones
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29 January 2018, p. 186
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Loss and Change. By Peter Marris. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1974. Pp. 174. Index 4 pp. Price £3.50.
Heinz Wolff
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29 January 2018, pp. 93-94
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Daily Experience in Residential Life: A Study of Children and Their Care-Givers. By Juliet Berry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1975. Pp. xi+190. Price £3.95.
B. H. Kirman
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29 January 2018, p. 508
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Psychodrama: Theory and Therapy. Edited by Ira A. Greenberg. New York: Behavioral Publications. 1974. Pp. xvi+486. Author index 2pp., subject index 7 pp. Price $16.95.
David M. Leiberman
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29 January 2018, pp. 295-296
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