RT Journal
T1 BErlin
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD May 4
VO 92
IS 18
SP 1537
OP 1537
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700440045025
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700440045025
AB Psychotherapy Among Prisoners 
    Addressing the Leipziger Juristisch-medizinische Gesellschaft, Oberregierungsmedizinalrat Dr. Lange, district physician (bezirksarzt) at the penitentiary in Waldheim, Saxony, discussed the "Functions of the Physician in the Administration of Criminal Justice." The education idea in connection with the administration of criminal justice has the purpose of awakening in the prisoner a definite aim and the desire to become a reputable citizen. The execution of such task, however, is rendered difficult or impossible in many cases by the type of human material found in a penitentiary. Most of the prisoners are much disturbed in mind and in spirit; they cannot adapt themselves to their surroundings, owing to the burden of their own personal difficulties. Almost all of them are suffering from the idea that a wrong has been done them; or at least that they have been too severely punished. They are conscious of their loss of personality. The separation