Hoch, Paul

Hoch, Paul K., and E. J. Yoxen. "Schrodinger at Oxford A Hypothetical National Cultural Synthesis Which Failed." Annals of Science 44 (1987) 593616. 

See Abir-Am, "The Biotheoretical Gathering," and Paul Hoch, in review of Rajkumari Williamson s The... 

Nevil Mott, "Memories of Early Days in Solid State Physics," Proc.RSL A371 (1980) 5666, on 57, quoted in S. T. Keith and Paul K. Hoch, "Formation of a Research School," on 37. 

Paul H. Hoch, "Experimental Induction of Psychoses," in Biology of Mental Health and Disease, pp. 539546 (see ref. 6). 

My observation about the involuntary patient requires a further comment. Psychiatrists not only define what they consider unwanted behaviors as diseases, for example, self-abuse and homosexuality in the past, drug abuse and homophobia today they also define what they consider improved behaviors—produced, for example, by lobotomy, electroshock, or psychotropic drugs—as the results of treatments. In 1948 Paul Hoch (1902-1964), professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene for New York State, explained the therapeutic effectiveness of physical treatments of mental illnesses as follows This brings us for a moment to a discussion of the brain damage produced by electroshock. Is a certain amount of brain damage not necessary in this type of treatment Frontal lobotomy indicates that improvement takes place by a definite damage of certain parts of... 

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