Generation Of Psychiatrists Research Articles

The Psychiatrist on the Parole Board

It is some years since Dr Henry Rollin published, in thePrison Medical Journal, an address he gave to prison doctors on the Role of The Psychiatrist on the Parole Board. Since then, there have been changes in policy and practice, and it may be opportune now to bring the work up to date, and to the notice of a generation of psychiatrists who might some day have the privilege and pleasure of serving on the Board.

Treatment of Depression-Reply

In Reply.— Dr Jones dissents not so much from the substance of my recommendation as from the fact that it was offered on the basis of clinical experience alone, without confirmation by extensive trials. Extensive systematic studies, in which observations are made and recorded by paramedical personnel, with or without questionnaires or rating devices, and the results of which are analyzed by statistical procedures, have become a shibboleth in modern phenomenological psychiatry. Extensive studies are demanded by academicians and institutionally based psychiatrists rather than clinicians in the private practice of psychiatry because the former see fewer patients on an intensive basis and are in a better position to conduct extensive studies. And since academicians edit most of the journals and select peer reviewers primarily from the ranks of academia, extensive studies are favored by psychiatric journals. Under the influence of these teachers, the younger generation of psychiatrists has come to

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: 36 Systems

Active Psychotherapy , edited by Harold Greenwald, 384 pp, with illus, $12.50, Jason Aronson, 1974. When Harper's Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: 36 Systems was first published in 1959, it deservedly became a classic. Among the numerous books on psychotherapy, it served its function as a guide to the constantly expanding smorgasbord of psychotherapies. By now, almost a generation of psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors of other disciplines have benefited from the instructive and clear chapters that discuss the development of psychoanalysis and its practice, as well as from the rest of the book that presents a what's what in psychotherapy in the past and present. The last chapter contains an overview, organizing the different schools into affective- or emotionallyoriented therapies and cognitive- or intellectually-oriented therapies. The author points out some major changes in the mental health field, such as the gradual erosion of psychoanalysis as the one and only therapy, by such upstarts

The new eclecticism.

TO THE YOUNGER generation of psychiatrists the orthodoxy-eclecticism controversy is not the vital issue it once seemed to be. The eclectic therapist, vintage 1950, is committed at least to a strong negative position. He is against freudian orthodoxy and the therapeutic rituals, theory of the libido, and general biological instinctualism which are its hallmarks. What the old eclectic is for is much more variable and harder to define. Sometimes he is only for his own therapeutic free play which he seeks to dig nify by an ideological label. But more often, he is for a greater recognition of transactional, sociocultural, or existential factors in explaining behavior. To the doctrinally uncommitted younger psychiatrist, however, the differences between his eclectic and orthodox forbears seem far less significant than their basic similarities, which include a primary commitment to the practice of dyadic psychotherapy and the principles of out-of-awareness motivation, childhood psychogenesis, and