Intrapsychic and family dynamics in perinatal sibling loss

The effects of perinatal death on surviving and subsequent siblings have been virtually unexplored. Perinatal sibling death is considered an event with impact determined by the interaction of the child's emotiond and cognitive responses with the reactions, distortions, and communications of the parents. The potentially maladaptive aftermath of perinatal sibling death is illustrated by clinical case reports that integrate intrapsychic and family perspectives. In each case, the individual's disturbed response to perinatal sibling death complements parental inability to: (1) resolve their loss; (2) communicate accurate information about the death to their child; and (3) assist their child in dealing with his/her feelings about death.     

Establishment sociology: The value of being value‐free

This is an excursion into the sociology of American sociology. It is an attempt to present a typology of the relationship between sociological empiricism as an ideology, and the pre‐eminence and power of empiricist sociologists. Toward this end, such concrete factors as recruitment practices, educational orientations, status strivings of the social scientists, forms of financial subsidization, and the profes‐sionalization of the field are taken into account. The article concludes by noting the limited field of investigations open to sociological empiricism, and its general impoverishment as the leading ideology of the science of sociology.     

Follow-up Validation of Rorschach Tempo and Color Use Indicators of Schizophrenia

Two to five year psychiatric follow-ups through a case register of original cross-validating samples for some Rorschach tempo and color use indicators of schizophrenia found subsequent diagnosis of schizophrenia associated (a) beyond the .001 level with certain deviations from normative tempo and (b) beyond the .01 level with presence of pure C or two or more of the following: 1–2 CF, Sum C 1.5–3.0, CF without C. Combined classification by the tempo and color variables was accurate in 90% of schizophrenic and 80% of nonschizophrenic cases manifesting neither or both variables. These findings, occurring within a population of psychiatric patients referred for testing, recommend the clinical utility of the variables.