The Section of Psychological Medicine at the British Medical Association at Belfast

1910 ◽  
Vol 56 (232) ◽  
pp. 110-111
Keyword(s):  
Medical Association ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
Psychological Medicine

Notes on Adolescent Insanity in Dorset

1904 ◽  
Vol 50 (209) ◽  
pp. 266-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Rorie
Keyword(s):  
Medical Association ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
Dementia Praecox ◽  
General Increase ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Psychological Medicine

Considerable attention has recently been directed by several observers to adolescent insanity and dementia præcox, and an increase in the numbers of these varieties, especially of dementia præcox, has been stated to occur, which means an increase in the more hopeless and demented cases. Dr. Wood, for instance, at the Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, remarked on the increase in the number of cases of mental breakdown during the age of puberty and adolescence among persons of the upper and middle classes— the ages of which on admission he placed at from eighteen to twenty-eight years—and he suggested as a cause the greater strain of education and the worries of life during the present time. Again, at a meeting of the Section of Psychological Medicine of the British Medical Association, Dr. Robert Jones mentioned an increase of dementia præcox and a general increase of the less curable forms of insanity.

Our Laws and Our Staff

1887 ◽  
Vol 33 (143) ◽  
pp. 379-384
Author(s):  
Oscar Woods
Keyword(s):  
Medical Association ◽  
Principal Stress ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
Interesting Paper ◽  
Psychological Medicine

As the British Medical Association does not often visit Ireland, I think the present not an unsuitable time to lay before this Section a few facts which I think of special bearing on the management of Trish asylums, and largely affecting the interests of their inmates. My object, however, is as much to elicit the opinions of others as to impart information. When the Psychological Association met in Dublin in 1875 an interesting paper was read by Dr. Stewart on the “Obstacles to the Advancement in Ireland of Psychological Medicine,” and laid principal stress on the fact that 18 out of 22 Irish asylums had no assistant medical officer. Suffice it now to say that they have since been appointed to five other asylums, but that there are still 13 asylums without a second medical officer.

The London County Council and Sir Frederick Mott, K.B.E., F.R.S.

1923 ◽  
Vol 69 (285) ◽  
pp. 220-224
Keyword(s):  
Medical Association ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
County Council ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
Hospital Service ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
The World ◽  
Psychological Medicine ◽  
To Come ◽  
Psychology And Medicine

The relinquishing by Sir Frederick Mott of the offices of Pathologist to the London County Mental Hospitals and Director of the Laboratory is happily not the occasion for a funeral oration, nor does it connote a cessation of those wide activities in the world of neurology and psycho-pathology which have distinguished his career, of which his 18 years' mental hospital service forms only a part, howbeit an important one. On the contrary, as we announced in our last issue, he has accepted the appointment of Honorary Director of the Pathological Laboratory of the Birmingham City Mental Hospitals and Lecturer on Morbid Psychology at Birmingham's University. It thus happens that London's loss is Birmingham's gain, but what is more important, Sir Frederick Mott's services to scientific psychiatry are retained, and, we hope, for many years to come. In his case, as with many illustrious men who have adorned the learned professions, age has only served to broaden the outlook, to give insight, and to ripen wisdom, all of which psychological medicine sorely needs if it is to be a fruitful branch of the healing profession. His British Medical Association Lecture on Psychology and Medicine, delivered in November last (1), is illustrative of this fact, and that his pronouncements now are of more value than at any period of his career.

To Increase the Membership of the British Medical Association

BMJ ◽  
1911 ◽  
Vol 1 (2619) ◽  
pp. 598-598
Author(s):  
Y. M. Jones-Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Medical Association ◽  
British Medical Association
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