An extensive literature on shame has not yet sufficiently addressed the nature and functioning of this affect from the psychoanalytic, developmental point of view. This paper tries to lay the ground for such a task.

A study points up the value of open communication among family members in coping with the crisis at all nodal points, especially postdeath restabilization

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Careful intake statistics concerning problem-types and referral sources can be used to estimate secular and seasonal trends. The effect of a publicity campaign promoting intake is superimposed upon these trends and so requires their estimation before it can be evaluated. In this study of a campaign to promote alcoholism referrals, the aggregate effect of the publicity was great enough to be confidently distinguished from a background of seasonal trends. Its effect on referrals from other agencies and professionals seems, however, more limited than one might expect.