TY - JOUR T1 - BErlin Y1 - 1929/05/04 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1929.02700440045025 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 1537 EP - 1537 VL - 92 IS - 18 N2 - 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 SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02700440045025 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700440045025 ER -