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BOÏAL M LÜIGO-P8TCH Ü LOGICAL »88OOIATIOK LIBRARY THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY (THE JOURNAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE) [Published by Authority of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association] SUPPLEMENT, JULY 1967 THE ROYAL MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING Wednesday, 3 May, 1967 The Annual Meeting, which had again been ad- Privy Council. This sets out the conditions undei journed in February, reassembled in Liverpool under which our pétition may well be successful. the Presidency of Professor E. Stengel. The Pétition Committee is exploring the implica- In the absence of the General Secretary, Dr. W. tions of the requirements asked for by the Privy Warren, Treasurer, read the following statement: Council. The position may be clearer at the time of the July Meeting, and if this proves to be true, a fuller "As a result of prolonged and energetic negotiations, statement may be made then." an encouraging letter has been received from the The Annual Meeting was further adjourned. SPRING QUARTERLY MEETING THE SPRING QUARTERLY MEETING was held in Election of Ordinary Members Liverpool on 2 and 3 May, 1967, under the Presidency The following were unanimously elected to of Professor E. Stengel and by invitation of Professor Ordinary Membership: Frank Fish. BRITTEN CHARLES STEWART, M.B., B.S., Senior House Minutes Officer, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh 10. Proposed by Drs. A. D. Forrest, Sarah Gray, R. L. The Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting held in Cundall. London on 9 February, 1967, having been published CHRISTIE ALEXANDER BARLAS, M.B., Ch.B., M.R.C.P., in the Supplement to the Journal, were approved. Registrar in Psychiatry, Law Hospital, Carluke, Lanark- shire. Proposed by Professor T. Ferguson Rodger, Drs. H. I. Obituary Clapham, M. O'Gorman. The President announced with regret the death of DA VIES, ROY JAMES, M.B., B.Ch., D.P.M., Senior Specialist the following members: in Neuro-Psychiatry in the Royal Air Force; Officer in Charge, Child Guidance Clinic, Families Medical BAKER, Jack Pedley, Consultant Psychiatrist, Wolver- Centre, Limassol, Cyprus. hampton and District. An Ordinary Member since Proposed by Drs. P. O'Connor, R. A. Miller, R. 1957- Seidelin. EHRLICH, FREDERICK, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S., Unit Director, GELLNER, LISE, I 719, East Bijou, Colorado Springs, Surgical and Rehabilitation Service, Psychiatric Centre, Colorado, U.S.A. An Ordinary Member since North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. 1952. Proposed by Drs. J. M. Collins, R. Migodzinski, K. M. MACKIE, MURIEL JEAN, Fellow, Crichton Royal, Koller. JOHNS, NANCY ROSE, B.A., M.B., Ch.B., D.C.H., Registrar. Dumfries. An Ordinary Member since 1955. Department of Child Psychiatry, Royal Hospital for Sick MACKINLAY, WILLIAM WOODSIDE, Assistant Psy- Children, Glasgow. chiatrist, Woodilee Hospital, Glasgow. An Ordinary Proposed by Drs. F. H. Stone, Isabel Sutherland, Member since 1964. Cecilia Brebner. KAHANS, DANIEL, M.B., B.S., D.P.M., Assistant Psychia- Council received the report of the Special Com- trist, Netherne and Fairdene Hospitals, Coulsdon, mittee which it is hoped will in due course become the Surrey. Court of Electors. It noted that active steps were Proposed by Drs. H. E. S. Marshall, E. F. Carr, R. K. being taken to draft regulations for the proposed new Freudenberg. qualification and to work out details of the form of KERR, ARTHUR, M.B.,B.Ch., BA.O., M.R.C.P.I., D.P.M., examination. Council also noted that the Special Senior Registrar, Gransha Hospital, Londonderry, N. Ireland. Committee were concerned with the possibility that if Proposed by Drs. E. P. Jones, R. H. McGucken, T. R. Great Britain enters the Common Market it will be Haire. necessary to create a roll of approved specialists. MAXWELL, MORNA KATHLEEN CUMMINGS, M.B., B.Ch., Council appointed the President-Elect, Dr. H. V. Senior House Officer, Department of Mental Health, Dicks, and the General Secretary to keep this whole Queens University, Belfast. matter under review. Proposed by Drs. W. O. McCormick. M. T. Kennedy, Council received proposals for the Joint Meeting J. B. Walsh. of the American Psychiatric Association and the MENON, M. SARADA, M.D., M.B., B.S., D.P.M., Superin- R.M.P.A. in Boston in May, 1968, and details will be tendent, Government Mental Hospital, Madras, India. published as soon as possible. Proposed by Drs. O. Somasundaram, P. S. Chary, A. Walk. The Editor-in-Chief reported that the Special Publication Recent Developments in Schizophrenia was in SHANNON, VIOLET COURTNEY, M.B., Ch.B., D.Obst. R.C.O.G., Senior House Officer, Royal Dundee Liff an advanced state of preparation. It will be avail- Hospital, Dundee. able to members at a favourable rate. Proposed by Drs. J. F. McHarg, A. L. Rae, P. G. The Education Committee reported that prepara- Aungle. tions were in hand for the Conference on Postgraduate SIMPSON, GEORGE MEGAHY, B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., Super- Psychiatric Education to be held in the autumn of vising Research Psychiatrist, Rockland State Hospital, 1968. Council approved, with alterations, the mem- Orangeburg, New York, U.S.A. orandum on the Medical Assistant grade. Proposed by Professor M. Hamilton, Drs. J. W. S. The Parliamentary Committee reported that it had Angus, J. G. Edwards. kept under review the whole situation regarding the SMITH, JEAN FENWICK, B.SC., M.B., Ch.B., Senior House Officer, Dingleton Hospital, Melrose, Roxburghshire. Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill. At the end of Proposed by Drs. J. M. Todd, Maxwell Jones, M. S. the Committee Stage this Bill still embodied the Raschid. R.M.P.A.'s main recommendations. Representatives SORIN, MIGUEL, M.D., Professor of Medical Psychology, of the R.M.P.A. would shortly be meeting the proposer University of Havana School of Medicine, Cuba. of the Bill at the House of Commons. The Committee Proposed by Professor Max Hamilton, Dr. A. Walk, also reported that they had found a wide measure of Professor T. Ferguson Rodger. support for the Lord Chief Justice's suggestion made TRIMBLE, GEORGE X., MA., M.D., Medical Director, some time ago that increased use should be made of Catholic Hospitals Medical Education Foundation, admission to hospital on hospital orders with restric- Kansas City, U.S.A. Proposed by Drs. J. C. Barker, M.D. Enoch, A. Walk. tion, under Section 65 of the Mental Health Act. The Papers and Discussions Committee reported that a paper would be given at the Annual Meeting, Election of Associate Members on the morning before the Presidential Address, by The following candidates for Associate Membership, Professor Querido of Amsterdam. A full programme, having been approved by Council, were elected: with particular emphasis on psychotherapeutic sub- MCKELLAR, THOMAS PETER HUNTLY, M.A., Ph.D., jects, had been arranged. F.B.Ps.S., Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Letters had been received from the B.M.A. con- Sheffield. cerning the possible control of LSD 25 and restrictions Proposed by Dr. F. A. Jenner, Professor E. Stengel, Dr. on prescription of amphetamines. Council agreed to W. L. Tonge. set up a Special Committee to keep these matters WRIGHT, BARRY FORSYTH, M.A, B.Sc., F.C.S., Psycho- under review and to recommend action if necessary. logist, Horton Hospital, Epsom, Surrey. Proposed by Drs. J. H. Watkin, H. R. Rollin, D. L. McNeill. Seminars The following Seminars were presented on Tues- Report of Council Proceedings day, 2 May, 1967. In the absence of the General Secretary, Dr. W. "The Measurement of Change in Neurotic Warren, Treasurer, read the following report: Patients." Dr. R. Kellner, Mr. B. Sheffield. 2 "Recent Advances in Psychological Testing for "Obsessional Disorder and Neurological Brain Damage." Dr. R. R. Hetherington. Illness" by Dr. L. Grimshaw. "Problems in Communication in the General "Under-inclusion: a Cognitive Characteristic Hospital." Mr. Phillip Ley. of Obsessional Disorder" by Dr. G. Reed. "Delusions of Infestation (Acarophobia)." Pro- "Patterns of Meaning in Obsessional Neur- fessor Frank Fish. oses" by Dr. I. M. Marks. "Perfection and Discrimination" by Dr. Papers H. B. G. Thomas. Wednesday, 3 May, 1967 Dr. P. Pinkerton read a paper on "Teaching by There was a Symposium on Postgraduate Tape: a Method of Postgraduate Instruction in Training in Psychiatry in which the following Psychiatry" at the meeting of the Child Psychiatry speakers participated : Section. At the meeting of the Psychotherapy and Social Professor Sir Denis Hill; Psychiatry Section Dr. Robert Kellner read a paper Dr. R. H. Cawley. entitled The discussions was opened by Dr. G. Hopkinson. "The Methology of Research in Psycho- Professor Malcolm Millar; therapy." Dr. C. P. B. Brook. Hospitality The Discussion was opened by Dr. C. Tetlow. Members were the guests of the University of Liverpool at a Reception on Tuesday, 2 May, and Section Meetings were received by Professor White, the Pro-Vice- At the meeting of the Research and Clinical Chancellor of the University, and Mrs. White. Section a Symposium on "Anankastic Disorders" The Chairman of the Liverpool Regional Hospital was held under the Chairmanship of Dr. D. W. K. Kay, Board, Sir Thomas Harley, received members at and the following papers were read : lunch on Wednesday, 3 May. AUTUMN MEETING 18 November, 1966 DISCUSSION ON THERAPEUTIC ABORTION The opening paper was read by Sir Dugald in the past, the more maternai traits a patient had Baird, formerly Regius Professor of Obstetrics and in her personality the more likely was she to Gynaecology in the University of Aberdeen (see have feelings of guilt about the termination. Con- Journal, this issue, p. 701). versely, the more immature, hysterical or psycho- Dr. C. M. B. Pare read the following paper entitled : pathic, the more a termination left the patient un- "A Follow-up Study of Patients referred for affected.