1st Edition

Psychosurgical Problems

By Mettler, Fred A Copyright 1999
    372 Pages
    by Routledge

    370 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1999. This book contains the thirteenth volume in the nineteen-volume series: Abnormal and Clinical Psychology - part of The International Library of Psychology. This study has moved into an examination of the influence of social environmental factors upon the postoperative course of psychosurgical patients. An appendix is included giving the status of the patients included in the first project, two years after their operation. Additional, still later, material on these cases is included in the first chapter, which brings our information up-to-date at the time of going to press.

    Contributors, Editor’s Preface, 1. Nature of the Project, 2. Hospital Management and Social Evaluation, 3. Surgical Procedures, 4. General Medical Condition, Including Hematological and Physiologic Findings, 5. Neurology, 6. Olfaction, 7. Vestibular Function and Autokinesis, 8. The Design of the Psychologic Investigation, 9. Psychometric Studies, 10. Complex Mental Functions: Memory, Learning, Mental Set, and Perceptual Tasks, 11. Attitude Evaluation, 12. Time-Sampling Study of Behavior, 13. Psychophysiology, 14. Discussion of Psychologic Investigations, 15. Report of the Psychiatric Discipline, 16. Conclusions, 17. The Original Columbia-Greystone Patients Two Years After Operation, Bibliography, Index

    Biography

    Mettler, Fred A,