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Advances in the biosciences 10. Schering Workshop on Contraception: The Masculine Gender
BEI~IAVIOI~ THERAPY (1974)
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595-600
Book Reviews Briefly Noted
DECKER, JOSEPH. Depresswn: Theory and Research. New York: Wiley (Winston), 1974, xii + 239 Pp. $12.50. This is a comprehensive review of past and--especially--current thinking about depression, its nature and genesis. There are chapters on classification and measurement, epidemology, psychodynamic theories, cognitive and behavioral formulations (somewhat skimpy), psychosocial research, biological aspects, and personality functioning in depressives. This volume is primarily for those seeking a thorough compendium, at a broad but not deep level, of the literature pertaining to the psychopathology of depression. It does not deal directly with treatment methods or the evaluation o~ treatment effectiveness. What it does do is to present a mass of facts in a competent fashion with minimal evaluation or bias; but at the end, we have little or no idea what the author really thinks other than "we don't know yet."
RASP]~, GERHARD, & BERNARD, S. (Eds.). Advances in the Biosciences 10. Schering Workshop on Contraception: The Masculine Gender. New York: Pergamon Press, 1974, vii + 332 Pp. $25.00. In the minds of most people, contraception is "feminine" despite the fact that, at this time, a vast proportion of the world's population rely on contraceptive techniques which are "masculine." While absurd to ascribe any particular gender to contraception, unconscious "engendering" of this nature clearly has major social and research ramifications. For a variety of obvious and less obvious reasons, the scientific and medical professions have all but ignored the male as a recipient of more sophisticated contraceptives. This volume is the report of an international multidisciplinary conference specially convened to address itself to these and related matters in the winter of 1972. Topics discussed range from such intriguing issues as "'Equality--in Society, in Family, in Bed" to a "Review on Metabolic and Enzymic Studies of Spermatozoa from the Ampullae Ductus Deferentiae of Bulls.'" Behavior therapy is represented by a chapter on a modification of the Masters and Johnson technique by GStz Kockott of the Max-Planck Institute in Munich. This particular paper is a trivial and now outdated contribution when compared with the sophisticated literature that is rapidly accruing in this area. DEMONE, HAROLD W., JR., ~ HARSHBARGER,DwmrlT (Eds.). A Handbook of Human Service Organizations. New York: Behavioral Publications, 1974, xx + 600 Pp. $29~.95 (Student Edition, 5 or more copies, $16.95). The 39 articles in this compilation of readings--some original and some reprinted-focus upon problems not ordinarily considered in texts of business-management. It 595 Copyright © 1974 by Academic Press, Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.
5,
595-600
Book Reviews Briefly Noted
DECKER, JOSEPH. Depresswn: Theory and Research. New York: Wiley (Winston), 1974, xii + 239 Pp. $12.50. This is a comprehensive review of past and--especially--current thinking about depression, its nature and genesis. There are chapters on classification and measurement, epidemology, psychodynamic theories, cognitive and behavioral formulations (somewhat skimpy), psychosocial research, biological aspects, and personality functioning in depressives. This volume is primarily for those seeking a thorough compendium, at a broad but not deep level, of the literature pertaining to the psychopathology of depression. It does not deal directly with treatment methods or the evaluation o~ treatment effectiveness. What it does do is to present a mass of facts in a competent fashion with minimal evaluation or bias; but at the end, we have little or no idea what the author really thinks other than "we don't know yet."
RASP]~, GERHARD, & BERNARD, S. (Eds.). Advances in the Biosciences 10. Schering Workshop on Contraception: The Masculine Gender. New York: Pergamon Press, 1974, vii + 332 Pp. $25.00. In the minds of most people, contraception is "feminine" despite the fact that, at this time, a vast proportion of the world's population rely on contraceptive techniques which are "masculine." While absurd to ascribe any particular gender to contraception, unconscious "engendering" of this nature clearly has major social and research ramifications. For a variety of obvious and less obvious reasons, the scientific and medical professions have all but ignored the male as a recipient of more sophisticated contraceptives. This volume is the report of an international multidisciplinary conference specially convened to address itself to these and related matters in the winter of 1972. Topics discussed range from such intriguing issues as "'Equality--in Society, in Family, in Bed" to a "Review on Metabolic and Enzymic Studies of Spermatozoa from the Ampullae Ductus Deferentiae of Bulls.'" Behavior therapy is represented by a chapter on a modification of the Masters and Johnson technique by GStz Kockott of the Max-Planck Institute in Munich. This particular paper is a trivial and now outdated contribution when compared with the sophisticated literature that is rapidly accruing in this area. DEMONE, HAROLD W., JR., ~ HARSHBARGER,DwmrlT (Eds.). A Handbook of Human Service Organizations. New York: Behavioral Publications, 1974, xx + 600 Pp. $29~.95 (Student Edition, 5 or more copies, $16.95). The 39 articles in this compilation of readings--some original and some reprinted-focus upon problems not ordinarily considered in texts of business-management. It 595 Copyright © 1974 by Academic Press, Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.