live in an unsupervised flat she will from the straight and narrow,' he said. It had emerged from the survey, however, that a quarter of made had the girls interviewed veer
IIEUIS REUIEUI Designed
for
playing
love to three or more men. Girl students on the pill came mainly from better-off families and were living 50 or more miles away from their parents. Dr. Gunn also told the delegates that student wastage cost the taxpayer more than ?5 million a year as one in seven students failed to take degrees. The failures rarely succeeded in commercial life and became 'chip-on-the-shoulder' members of the society.
usually
Ritual before the Pill In her determination not to become
Empty yoghurt cartons, dough, clay, magnets, spinning tops, wild west covered wagons you drive yourself, kaleidoscopes that respond to the voice, noisy carpets, a hideaway like a giant nose, and huge plastic inflatable 'blow-ups' for punching and leaping on?this was the scope of a tremendously inventive and lively exhibition called 'Playthings for the handicapped child' held at the Royal College of Art from March 30th-April 8th. Toys today are big business. But the special needs of the physically or mentally handicapped child are often overlooked. So this exhibition, organised jointly by Jim Sandhu and Roger Haydon, research associates at the RCA, and the child development research unit of Nottingham University, was devised in order to stimulate designers to come up with ideas. The most popular exhibits both with normal and with handicapped children proved to be the brightly coloured pvc inflatable structures.
pregnant a married school-teacher went through an elaborate ritual before taking her contraceptive pill. Dr. Peter Barglon told the third international Congress on psychosomatic medicine in obstetrics and
gynaecology recently. The
teacher washed
her hands
repeatedly; examined a suitcase containing the pill dispenser for signs of forcible entry; checked all windows and doors to ensure no substance could be sprayed into the house to destroy the pill's potency; spelled out the day on the
pill dispenser
and checked it with the calendar and then waited for an
hour before actually taking the pill. Dr. Barglow said that the woman wanted to be sterilised but a psychiatrist's recommendation was that she should stay on the pill and have
periodic psychiatric
treatment.
Campus sex
a
myth
in fact the
Association
service.
learn to co-ordinate their bodies and also to make relationships among themselves as they play together. Very few of the exhibits are on moment. the the market at Designers are hoping that manufacturers may take up their ideas, and
Psychiatric Rehabilitation has plans for putting the bouncy inflatables into production as soon as possible.
Centres for the compulsory treatment of people coming before the courts for offences involving alcohol were proposed by Professor Francis Camps at the International Conferon
ence
The ical
There is little truth in the fear that if a female student is allowed to
Alcoholism and Drug held in Liverpool in the
Dependence spring.
This treatment should be known compulsory support. This is what these people need,' said Professor Camps who holds the chair of as
forensic medicine of London Univer-
sity at the London Hospital medical college. He emphasised that he was not advocating punishment or imprisonment for alcoholic offenders but he was suggesting that restrictions should be placed on them.
professor envisages
every appears before the on drink offences being assessed in the special centres to establish how best they can be helped. There must be somewhere to send them to save their lives. If there were compulsory treatperson courts
promiscuous student is a mythfigure bearing little relation to reality, Dr. Alexander Gunn told delegates to the Royal Society of Health Congress in April. Over half the girl students on the pill who were questioned in a survey limited their sexual activity to one man and almost threequarters said that they would like to marry their present partner, said Dr. Gunn of the health Reading University
constantly heaving mass was as unpredictable as a pool of water or a punch bag. Physically and mentally handicapped children can
urged
The
new
The
Centres for drink offenders
who
ment centres and people were given indeterminate sentences to them the authorities might be able to help far more alcoholics than they did now.
He hopes that voluntary associations like the Salvation Army might get together to operate a small pilot project. If they did so he was confident that the government would then take up the idea and operate
them
on a
wide scale.
Drugtakers?status
seekers
Young people trying to register as drug addicts because they want a status symbol are causing difficulties at addiction centres where tests to be made to establish
have
whether they are genuine cases or not. This strange development in the drug culture of adolescence was discussed at a recent conference on addiction by Dr. Hugo Milne, a consultant psychiatrist who helps to run a drug addiction centre in
Bradford. Dr. Milne told conference delegates, 'These kids believe it is right to take drugs, yet many of them are not addicts at all.' There was a
similarity between seeking the status taker'
they failed and the patient was 'hopeless case?one who would himself anyway' the clinics kill If
a
young people label of 'drug youngsters who
and other were afraid of being thought of as 'chicken' for not having sex before
marriage. A warning about the spread of drugs into rural areas was sounded by Dr. Milne who said that there was evidence that drug pushers, probably on the run from drug squads, were moving out of Yorkshire's cities into the 'sleepy hollows' of the county to take advantage of young people in the country. He suggested that it was
dangerous for because they
anyone to think that lived in the country there was no risk of drugs being available.
means for 'a suicide carried out in a neat manner'. The professor who holds the chair of practical philosophy, said
should offer the
the clinics would help families of 'because there victims suicide brutal suicides? no be would people throwing themselves out of windows or in front of trains'. viewers
Many
telephoned
the
Swedish Broadcasting Corporation immediately after the programme to express their disgust.
campaign
is
being
mounted
to
revise the Hippocratic oath so as to absolve doctors of the burden of keeping alive 'human vegetables' by
sophisticated
modern techniques. In an address to the New York Academy of Medicine Lord RitchieCalder recently called for such a
change to be supported by doctors of all nations. At present the oath made it clear that people had to be kept alive because there was something called 'the spark of, life' in them. 'But this spark of life is not the human personality, it is merely the flicker on machine.' Lord Ritchie-Calder intends to press for new legislation. He wants people young and old 'who are in full possession of their faculties, to a
legal agreement stating that are not to be kept alive if they come to be in a vegetable state.'
sign they
Tidy suicides professor of philosophy recently provoked an indignant and
a
from doctors and just about everyone else when he proposed that suicide clinics should be set up to help people kill themselves 'in a neat manner'. Professor
Ingmar Hedenius, aged 62, suggested that it would greatly assist people who were tired of living. television discussion the said there was a need for such clinics in Sweden. They should be staffed by physicians and psychiatrists who would offer their services to anyone contemplating suicide. The staff would try to solve the problems of the potential suiIn
a
professor
cides and them.
provide
treatment
for
without people noticing them, so that vicious circles became established without protest. At the same time, outlets in harmless or creative fields were diminishing in an overpopulated and polluted world. Some patterns were now becom-
withdrawal into irresponsibility and tendency to do as little work as possible; a preoccupation with pay, especially in comparison with other groups in society.
the
Most
From inertia into violence With
work
satisfying creative
no
longer providing
a
outlet for most people's energy and leisure time
no more compensation, being people are choosing violence and justifying it in the opinion of Dr. Roger Tredgold, head of the department of psychological medicine at University College Hospital, London. Speaking at the Royal Society of Health Congress in a session on the mental health of the community, Dr. Tredgold concentrated on what
he saw as the reaction to the soulor boredom of
destroying frustration some types o^ work.
recent
strikes
had
been
Perhaps, said Dr. Tredgold, people should strike 'for 10% more approval or a 10% more interesting job.' It seemed reasonable to hope that intelligent man, with his ability to communicate, plan, design and about pay.
control his environment, would have difficulty in seeing the dangers and taking steps to counteract them but this hope might not be justified. It would be valuable to distinguish
no
between created
superficial vicious circles, by relationships going
wrong without anyone understanding why, and basic dissatisfactions and conflicts. If the superficial misunderstandings could be cleared up and then avoided the basic conflicts be understood and remedied or at least tolerated.
might
A Swedish
hostile reaction
difficult to control, reactions tended to take place and become fixed
ing common: increasing anger towards the system ('them') and the Establishment; disillusion capable of flaring into violent action; gradual
Hippocrates updated A
He suggested that the dangers of destructive action could exterminate the human race as neither the barbarian invasions of the dark ages the Black Death had ever nor threatened to do. With the rate of change more rapid than ever before and more
IIEUIS REUIEUI Designed
for
playing
love to three or more men. Girl students on the pill came mainly from better-off families and were living 50 or more miles away from their parents. Dr. Gunn also told the delegates that student wastage cost the taxpayer more than ?5 million a year as one in seven students failed to take degrees. The failures rarely succeeded in commercial life and became 'chip-on-the-shoulder' members of the society.
usually
Ritual before the Pill In her determination not to become
Empty yoghurt cartons, dough, clay, magnets, spinning tops, wild west covered wagons you drive yourself, kaleidoscopes that respond to the voice, noisy carpets, a hideaway like a giant nose, and huge plastic inflatable 'blow-ups' for punching and leaping on?this was the scope of a tremendously inventive and lively exhibition called 'Playthings for the handicapped child' held at the Royal College of Art from March 30th-April 8th. Toys today are big business. But the special needs of the physically or mentally handicapped child are often overlooked. So this exhibition, organised jointly by Jim Sandhu and Roger Haydon, research associates at the RCA, and the child development research unit of Nottingham University, was devised in order to stimulate designers to come up with ideas. The most popular exhibits both with normal and with handicapped children proved to be the brightly coloured pvc inflatable structures.
pregnant a married school-teacher went through an elaborate ritual before taking her contraceptive pill. Dr. Peter Barglon told the third international Congress on psychosomatic medicine in obstetrics and
gynaecology recently. The
teacher washed
her hands
repeatedly; examined a suitcase containing the pill dispenser for signs of forcible entry; checked all windows and doors to ensure no substance could be sprayed into the house to destroy the pill's potency; spelled out the day on the
pill dispenser
and checked it with the calendar and then waited for an
hour before actually taking the pill. Dr. Barglow said that the woman wanted to be sterilised but a psychiatrist's recommendation was that she should stay on the pill and have
periodic psychiatric
treatment.
Campus sex
a
myth
in fact the
Association
service.
learn to co-ordinate their bodies and also to make relationships among themselves as they play together. Very few of the exhibits are on moment. the the market at Designers are hoping that manufacturers may take up their ideas, and
Psychiatric Rehabilitation has plans for putting the bouncy inflatables into production as soon as possible.
Centres for the compulsory treatment of people coming before the courts for offences involving alcohol were proposed by Professor Francis Camps at the International Conferon
ence
The ical
There is little truth in the fear that if a female student is allowed to
Alcoholism and Drug held in Liverpool in the
Dependence spring.
This treatment should be known compulsory support. This is what these people need,' said Professor Camps who holds the chair of as
forensic medicine of London Univer-
sity at the London Hospital medical college. He emphasised that he was not advocating punishment or imprisonment for alcoholic offenders but he was suggesting that restrictions should be placed on them.
professor envisages
every appears before the on drink offences being assessed in the special centres to establish how best they can be helped. There must be somewhere to send them to save their lives. If there were compulsory treatperson courts
promiscuous student is a mythfigure bearing little relation to reality, Dr. Alexander Gunn told delegates to the Royal Society of Health Congress in April. Over half the girl students on the pill who were questioned in a survey limited their sexual activity to one man and almost threequarters said that they would like to marry their present partner, said Dr. Gunn of the health Reading University
constantly heaving mass was as unpredictable as a pool of water or a punch bag. Physically and mentally handicapped children can
urged
The
new
The
Centres for drink offenders
who
ment centres and people were given indeterminate sentences to them the authorities might be able to help far more alcoholics than they did now.
He hopes that voluntary associations like the Salvation Army might get together to operate a small pilot project. If they did so he was confident that the government would then take up the idea and operate
them
on a
wide scale.
Drugtakers?status
seekers
Young people trying to register as drug addicts because they want a status symbol are causing difficulties at addiction centres where tests to be made to establish
have
whether they are genuine cases or not. This strange development in the drug culture of adolescence was discussed at a recent conference on addiction by Dr. Hugo Milne, a consultant psychiatrist who helps to run a drug addiction centre in
Bradford. Dr. Milne told conference delegates, 'These kids believe it is right to take drugs, yet many of them are not addicts at all.' There was a
similarity between seeking the status taker'
they failed and the patient was 'hopeless case?one who would himself anyway' the clinics kill If
a
young people label of 'drug youngsters who
and other were afraid of being thought of as 'chicken' for not having sex before
marriage. A warning about the spread of drugs into rural areas was sounded by Dr. Milne who said that there was evidence that drug pushers, probably on the run from drug squads, were moving out of Yorkshire's cities into the 'sleepy hollows' of the county to take advantage of young people in the country. He suggested that it was
dangerous for because they
anyone to think that lived in the country there was no risk of drugs being available.
means for 'a suicide carried out in a neat manner'. The professor who holds the chair of practical philosophy, said
should offer the
the clinics would help families of 'because there victims suicide brutal suicides? no be would people throwing themselves out of windows or in front of trains'. viewers
Many
telephoned
the
Swedish Broadcasting Corporation immediately after the programme to express their disgust.
campaign
is
being
mounted
to
revise the Hippocratic oath so as to absolve doctors of the burden of keeping alive 'human vegetables' by
sophisticated
modern techniques. In an address to the New York Academy of Medicine Lord RitchieCalder recently called for such a
change to be supported by doctors of all nations. At present the oath made it clear that people had to be kept alive because there was something called 'the spark of, life' in them. 'But this spark of life is not the human personality, it is merely the flicker on machine.' Lord Ritchie-Calder intends to press for new legislation. He wants people young and old 'who are in full possession of their faculties, to a
legal agreement stating that are not to be kept alive if they come to be in a vegetable state.'
sign they
Tidy suicides professor of philosophy recently provoked an indignant and
a
from doctors and just about everyone else when he proposed that suicide clinics should be set up to help people kill themselves 'in a neat manner'. Professor
Ingmar Hedenius, aged 62, suggested that it would greatly assist people who were tired of living. television discussion the said there was a need for such clinics in Sweden. They should be staffed by physicians and psychiatrists who would offer their services to anyone contemplating suicide. The staff would try to solve the problems of the potential suiIn
a
professor
cides and them.
provide
treatment
for
without people noticing them, so that vicious circles became established without protest. At the same time, outlets in harmless or creative fields were diminishing in an overpopulated and polluted world. Some patterns were now becom-
withdrawal into irresponsibility and tendency to do as little work as possible; a preoccupation with pay, especially in comparison with other groups in society.
the
Most
From inertia into violence With
work
satisfying creative
no
longer providing
a
outlet for most people's energy and leisure time
no more compensation, being people are choosing violence and justifying it in the opinion of Dr. Roger Tredgold, head of the department of psychological medicine at University College Hospital, London. Speaking at the Royal Society of Health Congress in a session on the mental health of the community, Dr. Tredgold concentrated on what
he saw as the reaction to the soulor boredom of
destroying frustration some types o^ work.
recent
strikes
had
been
Perhaps, said Dr. Tredgold, people should strike 'for 10% more approval or a 10% more interesting job.' It seemed reasonable to hope that intelligent man, with his ability to communicate, plan, design and about pay.
control his environment, would have difficulty in seeing the dangers and taking steps to counteract them but this hope might not be justified. It would be valuable to distinguish
no
between created
superficial vicious circles, by relationships going
wrong without anyone understanding why, and basic dissatisfactions and conflicts. If the superficial misunderstandings could be cleared up and then avoided the basic conflicts be understood and remedied or at least tolerated.
might
A Swedish
hostile reaction
difficult to control, reactions tended to take place and become fixed
ing common: increasing anger towards the system ('them') and the Establishment; disillusion capable of flaring into violent action; gradual
Hippocrates updated A
He suggested that the dangers of destructive action could exterminate the human race as neither the barbarian invasions of the dark ages the Black Death had ever nor threatened to do. With the rate of change more rapid than ever before and more
