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injury, cardiac, hepatic and renal transplants, gastric surgery and colostomy, mastectomy, hysterectomy, transsexualism, burns, cosmetic surgery and haemodialysis. The last section concerns management. Here there are contributions on accident services and intensive care units, hypnosis, delirium, accident neurosis and dying. Each of the thirty six chapters is written by an author with a special interest and experience in his subject. The authors are drawn from all over the world and after each chapter there is a comprehensive list of references. There has long been a need for such a book and it will interest physicians and surgeons and all psychiatrists involved in hospital liaison work and should be in all medical libraries. ALEC Roy
Psychiatric Illness in Adolescence.
M. T. HASLAM.Butterworths,
London (1975). pp. 121. Price f6.00.
THIS short book is an account of the author’s research project comparing fifty consecutive psychiatric adolescent Newcastle in-patients with fifty normal adolescent controls. A two-year follow-up was performed. The first third of the book is an excellent and well written review of current knowledge about adolescent psychiatric and personality disorders. The author’s study is a valuable addition to the literature and will interest both child and adult psychiatrists. ALEC ROY
__ Alcohol Dependence. BRIAN D. HORE. Butterworths,
London (1976). pp. 153. Price E5.00.
DR. HORE is an English psychiatrist with a major interest in alcoholism. There has long been a need for a good short textbook reviewing the many different aspects of alcohol dependence. The chapters cover the clinical features, prevalence and social, physical and psychological aetiological factors. Other chapters deal with medical and psychiatric morbidity, traffic accidents and crime. The last chapters are concerned with treatment methods and outcome. This book will be of invaluable help to all physicians, general practitioners and psychiatrists. It is very well written and there are many references after each chapter. ALEC ROY
What Makes
Behaviour
Change Possible?
Edited by ARTHUR BURTON. Brtmner/Mazel,
New York
(1976). pp. 334. Price $15+)0. THLS book is about the various contemporary psychotherapies. The fourteen contributors are all American and are a mixture of academics and clinicians. The psychotherapies discussed include behaviour therapy, psychoanalysis, eclectic and supportive therapies, family and Gestalt therapies, cognitive and experiential therapies, and psychotherapy with schizophrenics. The theme of the book is whether psychotherapy does change personality and behaviour, what are the common and specific factors and what type of therapy is best for which problem. There are references and after each presentation the Editor asks five searching questions and reports the often illuminating answers. The chapters vary from reviews by the academicians to personal and often inspiring accounts of therapeutic styles and strategems by leading psychotherapists. Although some of the contributorslike Frank, Bandura, Marmor and Wolpe-are known outside America, all the chapters are very readable and interesting. This book will interest psychiatrists and psychologists in training as it contains statements of aetiological and treatment philosophies of the various schools of psychotherapy. It will also interest trained psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and others involved in counselling who wish to take stock of this changing field and the therapeutic methods and goals of others. ALEC ROY
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injury, cardiac, hepatic and renal transplants, gastric surgery and colostomy, mastectomy, hysterectomy, transsexualism, burns, cosmetic surgery and haemodialysis. The last section concerns management. Here there are contributions on accident services and intensive care units, hypnosis, delirium, accident neurosis and dying. Each of the thirty six chapters is written by an author with a special interest and experience in his subject. The authors are drawn from all over the world and after each chapter there is a comprehensive list of references. There has long been a need for such a book and it will interest physicians and surgeons and all psychiatrists involved in hospital liaison work and should be in all medical libraries. ALEC Roy
Psychiatric Illness in Adolescence.
M. T. HASLAM.Butterworths,
London (1975). pp. 121. Price f6.00.
THIS short book is an account of the author’s research project comparing fifty consecutive psychiatric adolescent Newcastle in-patients with fifty normal adolescent controls. A two-year follow-up was performed. The first third of the book is an excellent and well written review of current knowledge about adolescent psychiatric and personality disorders. The author’s study is a valuable addition to the literature and will interest both child and adult psychiatrists. ALEC ROY
__ Alcohol Dependence. BRIAN D. HORE. Butterworths,
London (1976). pp. 153. Price E5.00.
DR. HORE is an English psychiatrist with a major interest in alcoholism. There has long been a need for a good short textbook reviewing the many different aspects of alcohol dependence. The chapters cover the clinical features, prevalence and social, physical and psychological aetiological factors. Other chapters deal with medical and psychiatric morbidity, traffic accidents and crime. The last chapters are concerned with treatment methods and outcome. This book will be of invaluable help to all physicians, general practitioners and psychiatrists. It is very well written and there are many references after each chapter. ALEC ROY
What Makes
Behaviour
Change Possible?
Edited by ARTHUR BURTON. Brtmner/Mazel,
New York
(1976). pp. 334. Price $15+)0. THLS book is about the various contemporary psychotherapies. The fourteen contributors are all American and are a mixture of academics and clinicians. The psychotherapies discussed include behaviour therapy, psychoanalysis, eclectic and supportive therapies, family and Gestalt therapies, cognitive and experiential therapies, and psychotherapy with schizophrenics. The theme of the book is whether psychotherapy does change personality and behaviour, what are the common and specific factors and what type of therapy is best for which problem. There are references and after each presentation the Editor asks five searching questions and reports the often illuminating answers. The chapters vary from reviews by the academicians to personal and often inspiring accounts of therapeutic styles and strategems by leading psychotherapists. Although some of the contributorslike Frank, Bandura, Marmor and Wolpe-are known outside America, all the chapters are very readable and interesting. This book will interest psychiatrists and psychologists in training as it contains statements of aetiological and treatment philosophies of the various schools of psychotherapy. It will also interest trained psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and others involved in counselling who wish to take stock of this changing field and the therapeutic methods and goals of others. ALEC ROY