Frequency Of Mental Disorders Research Articles

. . . and a time to die: the medicine of old age.

Most deaths in Britain occur in old age, and old people dying have as many symptoms as do the young. Management is complicated by diagnostic difficulty, by the frequency of mental disorder (sometimes treatable) and of severe disability, and by the difficulty in ascertaining patients' feelings. Decisions about the management of dying are inevitable, and multifactorial, and views of others may be helpful. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is not indicated if futile, and may or may not be wanted by the patient. Withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment may be justified if the totality of life gained (length and quality) is not justified by the burden of treatment. Decisions are most difficult when the prognosis is poor but not definitely fatal. Palliative care is important, not only in cancer. Euthanasia is seldom requested at present, and in The Netherlands is carried out less in old people than young. It would do little for the most serious problems of old age.

4. India

This section is ushered in by two studies which complement each other, the one dealing with a long-established textile mill whose employees are drawn from the local community and remain long in service, the other with a rapidly expanding engineering company whose employees are drawn from all over India. In the first study, by H. C. GANGULI, mentally disturbed employees are compared with mentally healthy employees, and in the second, by K. BHAS- KARAN and his associates, immigrant workers with locally-born ones. An epidemiological study follows. P. S. GOPINATH in his M.D. thesis surveyed a village in the south of India regarding the frequency of mental disorders. Various birth order studies on patients in mental hospitals in the East and the West have shown association between birth order, sex of the patients, and schizophrenia. A. CHAKRABORTY'S study, which concludes this section, is carried out in Calcutta and is the only study of birth order in a sizable sample of psychiatric outpatients. She fails to corroborate previous findings.

5. Middle East

J. RACY surveys psychiatry in the Arab East. His monograph deals with childrearing practices, personality features common to Arabs, treatment facilities, folk psychiatry, and cultural psychiatry. Under the heading of cultural psychiatry, impressions regarding the frequency of mental disorders and culture-related variations in symptomatology are presented. According to Racy, openly expressed feelings of guilt and self-depreciation are unusual among Arab depressives. This view is not shared by M. F. EL-ISLAM, who, in the article which follows, reports on feelings of self-reproach in a fairly high percentage of Egyptian depressives; Christians (Coptic) showed no greater frequency of such symptoms than Moslems.

7. Europe

Based on case histories of patients suffering from endogenous depression and from schizophrenia admitted to an Austrian mental hospital during the last hundred years, LENZ identifies and contrasts basic universal features in these two psychoses with clinical manifestations influenced by Zeitgeist, culture and religion. He supports his view regarding milieu determined variability of some symptoms in these two mental disorders by observations made and differences noted in other cultures. A similar study confined to depressive states, and as far as these are concerned, arriving at similar conclusions has been carried out by LAUTER and SCHÖN at a German University Clinic. HELGASON compared his findings regarding the frequency of mental disorders in Iceland with those previously obtained by Fremming on the island of Bornholm. HENDIN contrasts differences in the frequency of and motivations for suicide in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. BASTIDE and RAVEAU studied problems of acculturation in three categories of French speaking Africans residing in France: long-term students, students who had come for a short period, and married workers. Pentecostal sects, according to KIEV, flourish among West Indian immigrants in Britain. He studied the important role played by these sects in religious healing both of physical and emotional disorders. In a second article, jointly with FRANCIS, he reports three psychiatric cases in members of the Subud sect.

SITUS INVERSUS TOTALIS: A SURVEY OF LATERALITY AND SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE FREQUENCY OF MENTAL DISORDER

The findings of this study did not support the hypothesis that situs inversus might predispose to left-handedness. However, the incidental finding of a high frequency of mental disorders in the histories of the patients studied adds evidence to that from previous authors that situs inversus totalis may predispose to such disorders.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:I. J. Gordon: Human Development from Birth through Adolescence.Karl Kleist: Sensory Aphasia and Amusia. The Myeloarchitectonic Basis. (Translated by F. J. Fish and J. B. Stanton.).Jill Brandon and David Morris: The Fountain Picture Books: 1, 2, 3.Valentine: The Experimental Psychology of Beauty.R. M. Allen and T. W. Jefferson: Psychological Evaluation of the Cerebral Palsied Person: Intellectual, Personality, and Vocational Applications. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 1, Part 1. Problems of Estimating Changes in Frequency of Mental Disorders.

Problems of Estimating Changes in Frequency of Mental Disorders.

Problems of Estimating Changes in Frequency of Mental Disorders.

Book Reviews

Abstract The Algebra of Probable Inference. Richard T. Cox. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1961. Pp. x, 114. $5.00. Reviewed by L. J. Savage Theory of Probability. Third Edition. Harold Jeffreys. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. Pp. viii, 447. $13.45. Reviewed by D. V. Lindley Guide to Tables in Mathematical Statistics. J. Arthur Greenwood and H. O. Hartley. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1962. pp.lxij, 1014. $8.50. Reviewed by George E. Forsythe A History of the International Statistical Institute, 1885–1960. J. W. Nixon. The Hague, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute, 1960. Pp. viii, 188. $2.40. Paper. Reviewed by Philip M. Hauser Fights, Games, and Debates. Anatol Rapoport. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1960. Pp. xvi, 400. $6.95. Reviewed by Gerald L. Thompson Soviet Statistics of Physical Output of Industrial Commodities: Their Compilation and Quality. Gregory Grossman. Princeton, New Jersey: University Press, 1960. Pp. 151. $4.50. Reviewed by Herbert S. Levine Management Models and Industrial Applications of Linear Programming. Two Volumes A. Charnes and W. W. Cooper. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1961. Pp. xxiii, 859. Each Volume $11.75. Reviewed by Walter W. Jacobs Contributions to Economic Analysis: Family Composition and Consumption. M. H. David. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1962. Pp. xii, 109. $2.80. Paper. Reviewed by Victor E. Smith Studies in Consumer Behavior. Amalendu Ganguly, et al. New York and Calcutta: Asia Publishing House and Statistical Publishing Society, 1960. Pp. iii, 92. $6.00. Reviewed by Irwin Friend Family Living Studies—A Symposium. International Labour Office. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Office, 1961. Pp. 280. $2.50. Paperbound. Reviewed by Edward Hollander The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors. National Bureau of Economic Research. (A Conference of the Universities—National Bureau Committee for Economic Research, Special Conference Series Volume 13.) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1962. Pp. xi, 635. $12.50. Reviewed by Mordecai Kurz Canadian-American Dependence: An Interindustry Analysis of Production and Prices. Ronald J. Wonnacott. (XXIV in Contributions to Economic Analysis.) Amsterdam: The North-Holland Publishing Company, 1961. Pp. xiv, 143. $4.50. Reviewed by Ronald I. McKinnon The Economic Value of the United States Merchant Marine. Allen R. Ferguson, Eugene M. Lerner, John S. McGee, Walter Y. Oi, Leonard A. Rapping, and Stephen P. Sobotka. Evanston, Illinois: The Transportation Center, Northwestern University, 1961. Pp. xxii, 545. $15.00. Reviewed by Daniel Marx, Jr. Introducing Population Statistics. Norma McArthur. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. Pp. xiv, 137. $4.90. Reviewed by Otis Dudley Duncan Population. William Petersen. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961. Pp. xx, 652 $7.95. Reviewed by Jacob Baar Business and Economic Statistics, Revised Edition. William A. Spurr, Lester S. Kellogg, and John H. Smith. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1961. Pp. xi, 560. $7.95. Reviewed by William F. Massy Anuario Estatistico do Brasil, 1961. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Conselho Nacional de Estatistica, 1961. Pp. 480. No price listed. Paper. Reviewed by Lawrence W. Witt Problems of Estimating Changes in Frequency of Mental Disorders. Committee on Preventive Psychiatry. New York: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, 1961. Pp. 469–521. $.75. Paper. An Introduction to Statistical Science in Agriculture, Second Edition. D. J. Finney. Copenhagen, Denmark: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1962. Pp. 216. Dan. Kr. 28.-. An Index of Mathematical Tables: Second Edition. Two Volumes. A. Fletcher, J. C. P. Miller, L. Rosenhead, and L. J. Comrie. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. for Scientific Computing Service Ltd., 1962. Pp. xi, 608; 609–994. $42.00 per set. International Work in Health Statistics 1948–1958. H. S. Gear, Y. Biraud, and S. Swaroop. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 1961. Pp. 56. $.60. Paper. Enterprise and Politics in South Africa. Heinz Hartmann. Princeton, New Jersey. Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, 1962. Pp. ix, 101. $3.00. Paperbound. Essays on the Soviet Economy. Naum Jasny. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962. PP. xiv, 297. $6.00. Asymptotic Approximations. Harold Jeffreys. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Pp. 144. $4.80. Financial Management of the Marketing Function. Michael Schiff and Martin Mellman. New York: Financial Executives Research Foundation, 1962. Pp. viii, 262. $7.50. Fitting a Von Bertalanffy Growth Curve by Least Squares Including Tables of Polynominals. Patrick K. Tomlinson and Norman J. Abramson. Sacramento, California: Department of Fish and Game, State of California, 1961. Pp. 69. No price listed. Automatic Data Processing Seminar for Federal Executives. United States Department of Agriculture, Graduate School. Washington, D. C.: The Graduate School, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1961. Pp. v, 240. $4.50. Paper. Annual Epidemiological and Vital Statistics, 1958. World Health Organization. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 1961. Pp. 857. $16.00. Paper.

PROBLEMS OF ESTIMATING CHANGES IN FREQUENCY OF MENTAL DISORDERS, REPORT NO. 50—Committee on Preventive Psychiatry, New York, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, 1961, 54 pages, 75¢

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Husbands and Wives Admitted to Mental Hospital

There have been a few studies of the nature and frequency of mental disorder in the offspring of marriages in which both parents were known to have been mentally ill (Schulz, 1940; 1941, Elsaesser, 1952; Lewis, 1957). A number of psychoses affecting both husband and wife have also been described as examples of folie à deux. Gralnick (1942) reviewed the literature, and found altogether 118 cases of folie à deux, but Ascher (1949) has concluded that such cases are commoner than would appear. The majority of those reported have involved blood relatives, in whom the implications of a “psychosis of association” are questionable, because of similarities in their genetic endowment (Kallmann and Mickey, 1946). However, Gralnick recorded 26 cases of folie à deux involving husband and wife.