Harold Shryock, M.D.

Professor, Department of Anatomy, Loma Linda University, Medical School

Some Relations Between Mind and Body

It is common knowledge that distressing mental attitudes have an unfavorable effect upon the functioning of the various organs of the body.

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Principles of Mental Hygiene

In Part I Doctor Shryock presented a definition of mental hygiene, the causes and early symptoms of mental ill-health. He discussed the Prevention of mental ill-health, showing the part the home and the school act. In this concluding portion of the article he continues with the adolescent period.

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Principles of Mental Hygiene

Presented to the Health Evangelism Class at Loma Linda. In two parts. This is part I.

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Why People Drink Alcohol

In view of the abundant evidence that alcohol is harmful, it is surprising that nearly 40 percent of the US population use alcoholic beverages.

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What Can We Do for the Alcoholic?

The monthly Medical Missionary article.

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Psychological Effects of Alcohol

From our monthly medical column.

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Religion a Health-promoting Factor

A look at the mind-body relationship.

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The Minister as a Marriage Counselor (Part 1)

Counseling can be the means of awakening a husband or wife to the evidences that they have backslidden.

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The Minister as a Marriage Counselor (Concluded)

THERE is no outline of interview for marriage counseling that suits every case. Best results are usually obtained when the inter view is conducted informally. It requires greater effort, perhaps, to conduct a profitable informal interview, but the person who is in difficulty responds more favorably to an easy type of conversation than to the stilted question-and-answer style. Further more, an informal interview permits the counselor to adapt his method to the needs of the individual case. The following suggestions are offered as guidelines. . .

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Illness: Predisposing Conditions

WE ARE now at a time in the world's history when the human organism is approaching its lowest ebb of inherent vital energy. We possess only the limited amount of resistance to disease that has been handed on to us after many generations of forefathers who carelessly disregarded the laws of health. . .

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