Patterns of Meaning in Psychiatric Patients: Semantic Differential Responses in Obsessives and Psychopaths

Abstract

<b>The Recognition of Mental Illness in London: A Study of the Social Processes Determining Compulsory Admission to an Observation Unit in a London Hospital</b>, by Annette R. L. Lawson, Institute of Psychiatry Maudsley Monographs, No. 15; 123 pp, $10.50, London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. <b>Physiological Measures, Sedative Drugs, and Morbid Anxiety</b>, by M. H. Lader and Lorna Wing, Institute of Psychiatry Maudsley Monographs, No. 14; 179 pp, $11.50, London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. These three most recent Maudsley Monographs describe research projects carefully carried out, with extensive review of relevant literature, detailed explanation of purpose and method, complete record of findings, and limited discussion and interpretation. The investigations were probably worth doing and reporting, but was it necessary to publish three whole books, to sell for a total of $35? By careful summarizing and editing, each of these research projects could have been adequately