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The article examines the language structure and predictability in overinclusive patients. The study is an attempt to relate measures of language effectives to overinclusive thought disorder. At their admission to hospital, 73 acute psychiatric patients were tested for Over-inclusive Thought Disorder and Psychomotor Retardation. Results showed that the overinclusion and retardation scores failed to intercorrelate as had been the case in previous studies. Results also showed that Speech Rate was found to be correlated with measures and ratings of retardation, to be increased following treatment by phenothiazine medication, and to be predictive of remission of retardation symptoms.

The article provides information on over 700 interviews with depressed women patients who underwent psychotherapy for eight months in a controlled maintenance trial. This aims to describe patients discuss in psychotherapy, as well as explore the relationship between reflection, concepts of insights and their relevance to psychotherapeutic outcome. Particularly, the method of the study which was conducted to moderately depressed female out-patients, ages 25 to 60, is posted. Information on the patient characteristics, as well as the frequent content themes discussed by patients are considered. Benefits obtained by patients undertaking psychotherapy emphasizing on the improved social and marital relations and decreased interpersonal friction are included.

The article reports on a study to test the hypothesis that many patients who attempt suicide come from that part of the community in which self-aggression is generally considered to be a way of conveying a certain type of information. A random sample of 10 percent of the patients who attempted suicide at the Regional Poisoning Treatment Centre at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland, was conducted. The patients will be termed as "probands" while their friends and relatives will be called "contacts." There was tentative evidence that the positive contacts tended to have attempted suicide towards the end of the survey period instead of uniformly over the four years at risk.

The article discusses the result of the experiment which attempts to treat long-stay schizophrenic patients on personal disorientation. Psychiatric patients usually do not remember people's names even if they see them daily. It was asserted that knowledge of another person's name is useful tool in social interaction and that ignorance of a name would mean a hindrance to communication. It was also suggested that there are some causes and effects between the social withdrawal of long-stay schizophrenic patients and their ignorance of names. The survey includes 27 schizophrenic patients who are grouped into three who are seeing the staff. It reveals that both the taught group had developed their performance by 200 percent or more in every section of test.

The article presents a study that attempts to measure psychiatrist's understanding of one of his patients by comparing grids prepared by two people at the same time. A grid is obtained when an observer compares a set of objects in terms of a set of logically applicable notions. The degree of understanding and the dimensions of misunderstanding between a doctor and a patient were examined using a repertory grid method. The changes that occurred in the patient during the experimental period are also discussed.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article on parasuicides, published in the July 1970 issue.