The contributors to this volume, like many others concerned with medical education have for a long whilebeen conscious of the fact that in the training of medical students and in the practice of medicine too little attention is being paid to the psychological aspects of illness and to the use of psychotherapy in patient care. In an attempt to fill this gap medical students at University College Hospital, London, have since 1958 been given the opportunity on a voluntary basis to treat a pa tient with weekly analytically-orientated psychotherapy under supervision for a year or longer. In 1977 a...

Heutiger Stellenwert der Operativen Dermatologie Dem Dermatologen stehen zur Behandlung seiner Patienten mit Dermatosen und Hauttumoren heute viele Therapieverfahren zur Verfugung. Neben der Behandlung mit den verschiedenartigsten Externa haben in den letzten Jahren innerliche Behandlungsmetho den viel an Bedeutung gewonnen, wie der Hinweis auf Chemothera peutika, Glukokortikoide, Immunsuppressiva, Zytostatika und aro matische Retinoide zu verdeutlichen vermag. Dermatosen, welche noch bis vor kurzem unbeeinflussbar waren, konnen heute kurativ oder morbostatisch behandelt werden. Neben solchen...

The World Congress of Dermatology (Congressus Mundi Dermatologiae, CMD) is held every 5 years. The purpose of this meeting is to review and summarize the present status of scientific knowledge in clinical dermatology and to in related basic research, to discuss recent results and ideas among colleagues and to contribute to the develop ment of new clinical and scientific research programmes for the future. It is evident that the Proceedings of such a meeting, where major dermatological work from five continents is presented, should be reviewed carefully and published as soon as possi ble. This...