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The article presents a memorandum of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association on the Second Green Paper on the future of the National Health Service in Great Britain. The association aims to coordinate the National Health Service and the Local Government services and welcome the participation of legal professionals and consumers. Policies concerning the management are given more importance rather than the daily administration activities. Furthermore, a single authorities should be recognized in each areas of the Health Service, including the social work and medical services.

The article discusses the memorandum of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association. It focuses on the green paper that indicates the administrative structure of the medical services in England and Wales. It is explained that any attempt to integrate the present tripartite administration into a single authority for a single community would be accepted by the Association, if satisfactory arrangements may be made that surpass the existing ones. Moreover, it should take responsibility for all the health functions of present local health authorities. Thus, it is stated that the unification of the tripartite structure of the National Health Service, by the development of Area Health Boards, are supported by them.

A recent paper published in this journal (Poole & Kuhn, 1973) has reported that ‘a relatively large family appeared to be no impediment to the educational achievements of middle-class children’. This finding, however, is based upon an analysis which fell into a relatively unknown statistical trap. Poole & Kuhn are only the latest in a long line of victims of this trap and some of their predecessors are reviewed below. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the changes surrounding the Great Britain Foreign Office. Sir Edward Grey replaced Lord Lansdowne as head of the Foreign Office in December 1905. One member of a Liberal cabinet headed by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was appointed as new foreign secretary of the office. According to the author, the new government and the new foreign secretary provide an opportunity of distinguishing the making and administration of foreign policy under two successive heads.

The article examines the international human rights protection state practices in Great Britain. The author contends that British state practice in the subject of sovereign states for the protection of human rights offers evidence of unrivalled continuity. The treatment of individual within the British Empire provides the moral justification for actions which sometimes stretched existing international law in the service of Christianity, humanity and civilization.

The article presents a historical background and a critical analysis of the works of Frederick Mott, neuropathologist and founder of Maudsley Laboratories in Great Britain. It explores his contributions to neuropathology and to the pathology of mental disorders. His influence to his successor professor Frederic Lucien Golla is also discussed. According to the author, Mott's publications from 1880 onwards were focused on the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the nervous system. He states that these interests of Mott were influenced by his mentor E. A. Schäfer. He accounts that Mott and Schäfer have collaborated on two papers, including one which investigates the extent of the head and the eye area in the frontal cortex of the monkey.

The article presents a paper that explores the applicability of psycho-analytical psychotherapy in a National Health Service clinic for out-patients who suffer from psychoneuroses in Great Britain. The technique of psychotherapy was based on psychoanalysis in so far as the patients were encouraged to freely associate and priority was given to the elucidation and interpretation of unconscious resistances. The implications of the results and those obtained with individual therapy in cases of long-standing illness cannot be denied or ignored. The results suggests that patients receive benefit from psycho-analytical psychotherapy and justify the initiation of pilot studies which might examine the efficacy of analytical psychotherapy in a manner acceptable to the psychiatrists and physicians.

The article decribes the types of group work to be adopted in mental hospitals in Great Britain for pyschiatric treatment. This papers tried to expressed that it is impossible to consider group treatment in psychiatric hospitals without referring to the social structure of the hospital as a whole. Psychoanalytic group is for out-patient groups of selected patients with psychoneurotic problems and familiar with conceptual thinking. Ward meetings involve 60 patients with a staff who comes in contact with them. Family group is a case for every patient seen in relation to his family, in which the family should be involved at the initial interview. In activity groups, five patients are formed into a group and activity program are developed within their competence.

Focuses on the views of British economists on the significance of Australian gold discoveries in 1851, in conjunction with their assessment of the overall value of the colonies. How information about the gold flowed from Australia to Britain; Discussion about the probable effects of the discoveries; Immediate reaction of most economies to the discoveries.

The article explores the utilitarian and the Fabian concept of British imperial policy in the nineteenth century. It argues that in the development of the Fabian, the utilitarian concept of empire displayed a zeal for order and centralization. It mentions that the Fabians assumed the position of progressive-intellectual leadership and chiefly concerned of social reform and the evolution of socialism within the framework of constitutional and parliamentary government.

Focuses on the diffusion of steam-engine as a power resource. Implications of the diffusion on Great Britain's manufacturing towns.

The author reflects on the problems in learning institutions in Great Britain. He argues that many of the problems of the English universities are due to the changes in the society and the challenges caused by the rapid growth of the whole educational system. Moreover, the author contends that the country's educational system does not educate individuals who would fit in the kind of society in the future.

The article provides an overview of the political development in Great Britain. In 1834, Conservative leader Sir Robert Peel accepted the measure as the definitive solution of electoral reform which describes by Benjamin Disraeli, British Conservative government, as an attempt to construct a party without principles. In 1837, the time that young Victoria had acceded to the throne, the Liberal-Whig control had already lost its sense which post-Reform Law was reserved.

The article focuses on the creations of Thomas Hobbes, an English philosopher, in Great Britain. He analyzed man's psychology and relied on his own observation and ratiocination to establish the best possible state commensurate with mankind's situation. Hobbes works include De la Sagesse, trois livres par Pierre Charron and Leviathan. It adds that Hobbes' account of human nature as self-interested cooperation has proven to be an enduring theory in philosophical anthropology.

The article discusses the political literature on the diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and Great Britain during the period 1895-1956. It focuses on the diplomatic relations of the two nations that had been primarily influenced by the evolution of elite policy makers and the intermingling of ideologies. Moreover, it examines the interplay between traditional realism and quasi-ideology that fueled the attitude of the British elite towards the U.S. in relation to world politics.

The article discusses the morality in Great Britain which involve the mid-Victorian's attitudes toward the mystery, daemonic, and the irrational. The mid-Victorian attitude toward mystery, the daemonic, and the irrational, and the change which this attitude represented from the attitude of earlier Romantics was concisely and precisely expressed by Matthew Arnold in his letter written in 1865.

The article discusses why William Gladstone, Liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times, change his position. It analyzes the position which Gladstone came to accept in later life. It relates this notion of liberty to the ideas of democracy and equality which Gladstone entertained.

The article reports on the reassertion of the action and policy concerning the decision of the British Government to produce hydrogen bomb for defense in Great Britain. It discusses the agreement made by the U.S. and British government concerning the improvement of their defense systems. It also mentions the plan of the British government to focus on the traditional nuclear means of engaging battle.

The article provides information on the controversy surrounding the 1958 political survey in Great Britain. It has been noted by the author that the 1958 Gallup poll indicated the dominance of the Conservative party for the first time since 1955. The author added that despite of the poll result, the Conservatives were hopeful of another victory over the Labour party in the 1959 election.

The article explores the relationship of Great Britain with Europe since 1945. It particularly looks at the involvement of Britain in the movement for European unity, driven by the needs of defense from the threat posed by the strengthening of the Soviet Union and the possibility of nuclear fission within the region itself. Given the country's weak communication link to the Continental group, the author believes that it will take more years before Britain join fully in the movement for unity.