Information collected from approximately one hundred males with sex disorders was analysed in order to attempt to identify some of the causes of the more important sex dysfunctions in men. Those conditions receiving special attention were erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation and heterophobia. The information gathered comprised those parameters thought to be relevant from the patients' social, sexual and medical histories. Some thirty independent parameters were recorded including a limited psychometric assessment. Information on social class, education, family structure, parent-child relationships, traumatic experiences were quantified as far as possible and to this were added data from the patients sexual history; masturbation patterns, the frequency, pattern and variety of sexual outlet, the nature of his fantasies and so on. Information was also collected on somatotype, relevant medical indices, and smoking and alcohol consumption.

With limited therapeutic resources, increasing demands for behavioural psychotherapy impose rationing by long waiting lists. Every patient taken on for treatment denies it to another who has to wait. Given this constraint, therapists can help many more patients by concentrating their scarce time on sufferers likely to show tangible improvement with brief treatment. This policy was applied to the treatment of 42 neurotics (mainly phobics and obsessive-compulsives) who completed exposure treatment with nurse-therapists in a mean of 9 sessions (16 hours). A cost-effectiveness study was mounted of the year before and after treatment.

Entering the betting shop environment may be influenced not only by economic motives (Hess and Diller, 1969) but also by early learning within the family (Bergler, 1957) and by the contingencies operative in the wider social environment (Newman, 1972).

One of the major conclusions of the Foster Report was that there was a strong case for legislation in the United Kingdom to control the practice of psychological medicine. Following the publication of that Report in December 1971, the Department of Health & Social Security invited comments. At a meeting, held on 24th May 1974, at the initiative of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, between officials of the DHSS and representatives of seven organisations representing practitioners of psychotherapy, Sir John Foster's recommendations were further discussed. Following that meeting, the Department in a letter dated 22nd January 1975 suggested that the organisations concerned might wish to consider establishing a joint Working Party which could develop the proposals in more detail in consultation with others.