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The article presents a study which discusses the division of childhood psychoses. They can be grouped into: (1) children with early onset and a slow chronic course; (2) children age three to five years with an acute course followed by regression; and (3) children aged over 5 years with a late onset and a fluctuating subacute course. Details of the researchers' ascertainment criteria in the study, the infantile psychosis and late onset psychoses are also discussed. Meanwhile, the study reported in the paper evaluates the value of distinction by age onset and creates the frequency of occurrence of the different signs in the different clinical groups.

The article focuses on a psychological state of confusion between subject and the object where the subject or ego, is solely concerned with artificial attempts to keep itself intact. This confusion between subject and object belongs to a very primitive level of psychological development where there is not much awareness of what is inside and what is outside. This condition leaves the subject in one-person situation where invasions compulsive efforts to drive out, or separate from the invaders unceasingly recur.

The article presents a study, which aims to determine whether factor analysis would yield interpretable factors, and more specifically, whether the expected factor structure similar to the five impulse areas that form the premise for item adoption would emerge. The Self-Report Test of Impulse Control (STIC), designed to measure the five impulse areas of Impulse Toward Happiness, Impulse Toward Liberty, Social impulse, Sex impulse and Cognitive impulse, was developed to provide a more useful measure of human impulse life than is presently available.

The article informs that maladjustment has been explained as "repetition compulsion" or as the imposition of past perceptions upon present experience. Repetition of the past involves not only inaccurate perceptual content, but more especially a structure-bound manner of experiencing. There is experiencing of structures and patterns instead of the richly detailed immediacy of present events. It follows that immediacy of experiencing is a mark of adjustment. Increased immediacy of experiencing has also been viewed as inherent in the process of therapy.

The article talks about the inherent characteristics of and ways to resolve family conflicts. The article cites the sources of family conflict, which include compulsion, intimacy, smallness and change. It is stated that different preventive mechanisms are found in various societies, depending partly on the points at which their family system is especially vulnerable to conflict. Marriage education and premarital counseling are cited as the new preventive mechanisms in society. Among the instrumental mechanisms for resolving family conflicts include increased facilities for family living, priority systems for the use of limited facilities, enlargement of areas of autonomy and safety valves for reducing tension between family members. The processes of resolving family conflict is discussed.

The article deals with the growing concern for emphasizing human relations and community leadership in the professional education of school administrators. The choosing and training of standard ideal school administrators who are interchangeable in many typical school situations is unrealistic. The stress now is on the unique personality of each who is chosen or who chooses to devote his life to school administration and the stress should include the unique personalities of the human beings with whom he deals. It is an emphasis on dealing with people as people rather than as things or statistics. It recognizes that feelings are facts and must be added to the sheer logic of intelligence if one is to understand motivation and the pattern of human behavior. The editors point out carefully that there is a difference in working relations when we view the internal direction of human behavior in terms of attitudes and perceptions as contrasted to the external compulsion of human behavior based on a rigid application of the S-R bond psychology.

The article discusses the relapse rate in addiction programs. The article adds that the resumption of smoking or the relapse rate over time for a group of people who had successfully completed a treatment program and given up smoking conforms to a negatively accelerated, typical "extinction" curve such as those presented in the article. The lack of uniformity in reported follow-up data, plus the common sources of contamination in the different techniques themselves suggest that the field is not ready as yet for sophisticated evaluative methods.