A middle-aged woman with a recurrent depressive illness showed worsening of her tardive dyskinesia during the depressive phases, with improvement on remission.

A case of doll phobia in a 14-year-old boy is presented and discussed.

Psychosis is reported following abrupt withdrawal of oestrogen and surgery for male-to-female sex reassignment. The resemblance of the patient's mental state to puerperal psychosis suggested a hormonal aetiology.

The treponemal serological status of 800 patients above the age of 65 was reviewed. Twenty-one were found to be positive and the venereologists advised against treatment in all referred cases. The question is posed whether syphilis serology screening in the elderly mentally ill should be confined to those patients with obvious clinical manifestation of syphilis or with obscure psychiatric presentations.

The first edition of Psychopathic Personalities appeared in 1912, roughly ten years after Jaspers' General Psychopathology and the last edition of Kraepelin's Textbook of Psychiatry. Schneider's role in applying Jaspers' method of psychopathological study to Kraepelin's classification of psychiatric disorder has been seen as an important aspect of his work (Hoenig, 1982) and is evident in his own Clinical Psychopathology (Schneider, 1959). However, his study of the classification of psychopathic personalities, an area which Kraepelin never succeeded in delineating clearly (Lewis, 1974), is regarded as his most important contribution (Anderson, 1959; Hoenig, 1982).