NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY FOR GENERAL PRACTICE

Edited by Henry R. Viets, M.D. '12. In collaboration with C. Charles Burlingame, M.D., Clarence B. Farrar, M.D., Z. M. Lebensohn, M.D. Grune & Stratton, 1950, 150 pp.

This text is developed from a series of lectures and discussions held in Washington, D. C., in December 1949 as part of the Clinical Session of the American Medical Association. It is dedicated to Dr. C. Charles Burlingame who was one of the guiding spirits in the program but who died before the book was ready for publication.

It represents essentially an effort at orienting the practicing physician in "The Newer Approaches" in neurology and psychiatry and is limited in its scope to the more common problems with which the physician finds himself confronted. The neurological section contains two chapters on Epilepsy, one each on Parkinsonism, Rehabilitation of the Disabled Neurological Patient, Office Treatment of Neurosyphilis, Use of E.E.G., and Migraine and Other Forms of Headache. The psychiatric section, besides more specific chapters on Electroconvulsive Therapy and Psychosurgery, is largely devoted to the handling of psychiatric problems as they occur in everyday practice, be it in the care of an "uncooperative" patient, a psychosomatic illness, or that of a psychosis. Some factors that may contribute to retardation and distortion in the growth of infant and child are discussed. Attention is also drawn to the emotional barriers that build up in the physicians themselves in dealing with trying patients, for instance, alcoholics.