Alcoholism and depression.

Alcoholism and depression are entangled in many ways and appear in many combinations. In spite of this fact, to this problem is rarely given sufficient attention which results in poor diagnostic and inadequate therapeutic approach with all the consequences this engenders. The frequency of depression in alcoholics is investigated here with the object of finding out to what extent it can be successfully diagnosed and medically treated. The research was carried out in the Psychiatric Clinic of the Clinical Hospital "Split" and the sample of examinees included the patients treated in the stationary part of the Clinic and in the daily hospital.

Aggression and alcoholism.

Alcoholism is today the greatest medical and social problem. Due to the fact that it is frequently connected with aggressiveness, it can also be defined as a great and frequent forensic problem. The authors investigate the issue to what extent aggressiveness is medically justified. They offer guidelines regarding this problem in accordance with their everyday experience and medical criteria.

[Some sociopsychiatric aspects of psychophysically retarded children]. / Quelques aspects sociopsychiatriques des enfants psychophisiquement retardés.

During our work on systematic registration of psychophysically handicapped children in Split and the assessment of the needs for their rehabilitation and readaptation, the most important finding was maladjustment with a remarkably high grade of mental disorder. An analysis of the information from a pediatro-psychiatric clinic has shown that this is due to inadequate approach to the child when in the course of his physical rehabilitation the social moment is neglected and consequently the primary somatic disorder--often an unsignificant psychomotoric handicap or psychic disorder--is followed by severe intellectual, characteral and psychical aberration. A series of necessary measures and procedures in the work with such children are proposed, particularly in view of the necessity of adopting an individual plan of rehabilitation procedures, regardless where the child is accommodated. The advantages of a treatment in "free conditions", i.e. in the family, over the residence or institution system are stressed, though the first solution is usually preferred because of organizational, material and other conditions.