Figments Of Imagination Research Articles

A new technique for the registration of the vectorcardiogram based on the mathematical relation between the limb and precordial leads

M ANY methods to obtain vectorcardiograms have been proposed; all of them have been based on the theoretical assumption of the thorax as ;L geometrical imaginary figure. It is obvious that the thorax can not be accepted as an unvariable geometrical figure. Therefore, the best system is not the determination of a figure similar to that of the thorax, but the supposition of three axes perpendicular to each other determining no special figure. These axes are vertical, horizontal, and sagittal, all of them passing through the center of the myocardic activation. ‘4 method to obtain an approximate vectorcardiogram in the frontal and horizontal planes was proposed in a foregoing communication.’ There was not a common lead for both planes, and they were obtained separately.

Some interview techniques in child psychiatry

The technique of conducting a psychiatricinterview with a child is discussed. The interview is treated from two main points of view. 1.Investigation of interpersonal relationships. This includes: (a)Attitudes toward various members of the family, e.g., parents siblings. (b)Attitudes toward contemporaries, at school and in the neighborhood. (c)Attitudes toward teachers andother figures of authority; adjustment at school, and at other group activities. (d)Attitudes toward the self, e.g., problems of inferiority, superiority, feelings of rejection, and so on. (e)Attitudes toward the examining physician. 2.Investigation of unconscious and fantasy life. These include: (a)A study of the dream life. (b)A study of fears and phobias. (c)A study of introjective phenomena. (d)A study of projective phenomena. (e)A study of the child's fantasy and inner dynamics through such methods as: the three wishes, imaginary figures, the deserted island, made-up stories, and other verbal projective techniques. A description is given of supplementarypencil and paper tests and methods of physically contacting and examining the child carried out concurrently with the psychiatric interview. Two illustrative cases with discussion are appended to illustrate pathology in the realm of (1) interpersonal relationships and (2) unconscious and fantasy life. The technique of conducting a psychiatricinterview with a child is discussed. The interview is treated from two main points of view. 1.Investigation of interpersonal relationships. This includes: (a)Attitudes toward various members of the family, e.g., parents siblings. (b)Attitudes toward contemporaries, at school and in the neighborhood. (c)Attitudes toward teachers andother figures of authority; adjustment at school, and at other group activities. (d)Attitudes toward the self, e.g., problems of inferiority, superiority, feelings of rejection, and so on. (e)Attitudes toward the examining physician. 2.Investigation of unconscious and fantasy life. These include: (a)A study of the dream life. (b)A study of fears and phobias. (c)A study of introjective phenomena. (d)A study of projective phenomena. (e)A study of the child's fantasy and inner dynamics through such methods as: the three wishes, imaginary figures, the deserted island, made-up stories, and other verbal projective techniques. A description is given of supplementarypencil and paper tests and methods of physically contacting and examining the child carried out concurrently with the psychiatric interview. Two illustrative cases with discussion are appended to illustrate pathology in the realm of (1) interpersonal relationships and (2) unconscious and fantasy life.

3. Note on Professor Bain's Theory of Euclid I. 4

In a paper communicated to this Society last session, I pointed out that the proof of Euc. I. 5, given by Mr Mill, is unsound; endeavouring, at the same time, to show that this is no mere accident, but that it is impossible to give a mathematically correct analysis of the processes of Synthetic Geometry on any theory that holds figures to be merely illustrative, and does not admit that intuition in the Kantian sense—i.e., actual looking at a single engraved or imaginary figure—may be a necessary and sufficient step in a demonstration perfectly general.