Fiery tongues and mystical motivations: glossolalia in a forensic population is associated with mania and sexual/religious delusions

Comparisons are made between a nonrandom sample of 18 glossolalists and 130 non-glossolalists admitted to a maximum-security forensic hospital. The glossolalic mentally disordered offender exhibited a predominance of diagnoses in the manic spectrum, and was typically psychotic. The delusions, hallucinations, and crimes were predominately of a religious and sexual nature. Glossolalist perpetrators tended to be female. We review the extant research on glossolalia in both normal and clinical samples. and integrate our findings, the first study of glossolalia in a forensic setting.     

The Present Moment as a Critical Moment

Like a musical interlude, the present moment hovers between becoming the past and progressing into the future. Critical moments, for the author, are moments in which the parties are fully in the present or the "now," caught in a pivotal space where any action, or even inaction, will change the destiny of the situation and the actors themselves. It is a transformative journey, taken together, that starts with moment of suspense, and traverses a landscape of emotion and intention where a world of change becomes possible.     

A shortened child behavior checklist for delinquency studies

This study examines the reduction of the number of items in the scales of the Child Behavior Checklist, while maintaining the reliability and predictability of its original scales. For that purpose, the original scales were replicated with data from the Pittsburgh Youth Study. New, abbreviated scales were constructed using the most potent items. This process yielded trimmed scales that were highly correlated with the full scales and that still reflect the original meanings of the scales. Further, there was no loss of reliability or predictability with the trimmed as opposed to the full scales. The results were replicated in an analysis with identical variables from the Rochester Youth Development Study. This replication produced equally high reliabilities with similar levels of prediction of delinquent behavior.We would like to thank Terence P. Thornberry for helpful comments and advice on early drafts of this paper.     

The All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and French Intellectuals, 1925–29

The 1920s and 1930s were years of active personal support for the USSR by a number of eminent French intellectuals who assisted in the creation of an image of the USSR in French public opinion. This was largely based on their perceptions of the social, political and cultural achievements in Soviet society. Analysis of the archival, and mainly unpublished, documents of VOKS (the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries) illustrate the true nature of an organisation that claimed to have been created in order to promote international cultural relations. The internal correspondence and reports reveal the mechanisms used by VOKS from its inception in order to create, foster, and manipulate relations with numerous members of the French intelligentsia. Also revealed in this paper is the leading role played by VOKS in the creation of the USSR-France "cultural" friendship societies, its policies concerning the selection and treatment of French visitors, and other features of political propaganda that have been commonly considered to belong to the period of the 1930s.     

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Paul R. Gregory, Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy. Soviet Interview Project Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, xii+181 pp., £25.00, $37.50.

Thane Gustafson, Crisis Amid Plenty—The Politics of Energy under Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989, xxv+362 pp., $29.95.

John M. Kramer, The Energy Gap in Eastern Europe. Lexington: D. C. Heath, 1990, xiii+200 pp., $39.00.

William Moskoff, ed., Perestroika in the Countryside: Agricultural Reform in the Gorbachev Era. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe Inc., 1990, xii+135 pp.

Wlodzimierz Bras & Kazimierz Laski, From Marx to Market. Socialism in Search of an Economic System. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990, 177 pp.

B. P. Kurashvili, Strana na rasput'e. (Poteri i perspektivy perestroiki). Moscow: Yuridicheskaya literature, 1990, 176 pp., 60K.

Lajos Héthy, Mária Ladó & John E. M. Thirkell, eds, New Collective Forms of Work Organisation in Eastern Europe. Budapest: Institute of Labour Research, 1989, 210 pp.

Michael Kraus & Ronald D. Leibowicz, Perestroika and East‐West Economic Relations: Prospects for the 1990s. Geonomics Institute for International Economic Advancement Studies. New York: New York University Press, x+357 pp., $44.00.

George E. Hudson, ed., Soviet National Security Policy under Perestroika. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990, xv+343 pp., £38.00 h/b, £14.95 p/b.

Christoph Bluth, New Thinking in Soviet Military Policy. London: Pinter Publishers, 1990, viii+118 pp., £19.50 h/b, £7.95 p/b.

David E. Albright, Vanguard Parties and Revolutionary Change in the Third World: Soviet Perspectives and Their Implications. Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley: Policy Papers in International Affairs, No. 38, 1990, 126 pp., $9.50 p/b.

George Ginsburgs, ed., Soviet Administrative Law: Theory and Policy. Law in Eastern Europe, No. 40, issued by the Documentation Office for East European Law, University of Leiden. General Editor: F. J. M. Feldbrugge, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1989, 516 pp., £92.50.

Albert J. Schmidt, ed., The Impact of Perestroika on Soviet Law. Law in Eastern Europe, No. 41, issued by the Documentation Office for East European Law, University of Leiden. General Editor: F. J. M. Feldbrugge, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1990, 558 pp., £117.00.

Lynn Mally, Culture of the Future. The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990, xxix+306 pp., $37.50.

Hans Günther, ed., The Culture of the Stalin Period. London: Macmillan, 1990, xxi+291 pp., £47.50.

George Sanford, ed. and trans., The Solidarity Congress, 1981: The Great Debate. London: Macmillan, 1990, x+270 pp., £40.00.

Ronald I. Kowalski, The Bolshevik Party in Conflict. London: Macmillan, 1991, x+244 pp., £35.00.     

The Limits to Coercive Consociationalism in Northern Ireland

The merits of consociation as a means of solving the Northern Ireland conflict are presented through contrasting it with other ways of stabilizing highly divided political systems. Why voluntary consociation has been unsuccessful in Northern Ireland and unfortunately is likely to remain so is explained. The signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) must be understood against the background of the failure of previous consociational experiments. The AIA partly represented a shift in British strategy from voluntary to coercive consociationalism. The prospects for this coercive consociational strategy and variants on it are evaluated.