Norbert Müller

The modern world is dominated by sport. The Olympics and the World Cup are seen by billions of television viewers from around the globe. When Pope Benedict travels to foreign countries, typically the only venues large enough to hold the crowds for a papal Mass are sports arenas, such as London’s Wembley Stadium. In response to the call of popes and the Second Vatican Council to read the signs of the times, Sport and Christianity explores the connections between these two seemingly disparate phenomena. It reflects on what the fascination for sport reveals about the human person and to what degree sporting activities are compatible with, and can even advance, the church’s mission. The book discusses the attitude toward sports presented in the Old and New Testaments and in the writings of the church fathers. This leads naturally to a study of Christian anthropology , the relationship between God and man, as well as the connection between the body and the soul. There is an extensive look at sports as viewed by recent popes, including Pope Pius XII—who denounced the use of drugs in sports as early as 1955—as well as Pope John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI. The editors pose provocative questions, such as what is Christian about sport, and how can we make sport more Christian? Ideally teamwork, pursuit of a common goal, and trying for excellence are laudable, but winning at all costs or the subjugation of Sundays to football are not. Last, given that some countries send priests as chaplains to the Olympic games and some professional sports teams have chaplains, there is a section on how to give pastoral advice to those who work in the sports professions.

Das Werk gibt einen Uberblick uber den derzeitigen Forschungsstand auf dem gesamten Gebiet der Psychoneuroimmunologie und beschaftigt sich besonders mit immunologischen Mechanismen bei endogenen Psychosen. Besonders berucksichtigt werden das zelluare Immunsystem und das HLA-System. Die Untersuchungen zeigen, dass bei Schizophrenen und affektiven Psychosen Zeichen einer Immunaktivierung zu finden sind. Diagnostische Spezifitat, Autoimmunhypothese und Virus-Hypothese stehen im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion.

This book first appeared in Germany in 2004. In response to the great amount of interest in the book expressed by colleagues from all over the world, we subsequently decided to produce this English version. We have also taken this opportunity to update the information on the Department of Psychiatry since 1994 to include further developments up to the present day (see Chapter 15). One can look at a hospital from all kinds of different perspectives. For psychiatrists with the daily medical task of dealing with the life histories of their patients, it is understandable that they are interested in the development of their hospital from a historical perspective. To do this for the University Department of Psychiatry of Munich an introduction can be made by reminding the reader of a date: just over 100 years ago, on November 7, 1904, the newly constructed »Royal Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Munich« was inaugurated with a ceremonial act and handed over to the public. Emil Kraepelin gave a ceremonial speech on the occasion.

This book first appeared in Germany in 2004. In response to the great amount of interest in the book expressed by colleagues from all over the world, we subsequently decided to produce this English version. We have also taken this opportunity to update the information on the Department of Psychiatry since 1994 to include further developments up to the present day (see Chapter 15). One can look at a hospital from all kinds of different perspectives. For psychiatrists with the daily medical task of dealing with the life histories of their patients, it is understandable that they are interested in the development of their hospital from a historical perspective. To do this for the University Department of Psychiatry of Munich an introduction can be made by reminding the reader of a date: just over 100 years ago, on November 7, 1904, the newly constructed »Royal Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Munich« was inaugurated with a ceremonial act and handed over to the public. Emil Kraepelin gave a ceremonial speech on the occasion.

In der Arbeit werden unterschiedliche linguistische Modelle nach ihrer Tauglichkeit fur ein Konzept von Kommunikationsforderung im Kindergarten befragt. Zielvorstellung ist ein Verfahren der Kommunikationsforderung, in das die sprachliche Ausgangslage der Kinder sowie ihre altersgemassen Spiel- und Lernbedurfnisse zwanglos aufgenommen werden konnen."

Seit einigen Jahren ist allenthalben eine wachsende Sensibilisie- rung gegenuber Problemen zu verzeichnen, die ein Leben des Menschen in einer von ihm selbst geschaffenen 'kunstlichen' Umwelt, in einer, wie es Adam treffend kennzeichnet, "Mensch-Maschinen-KommunikationsgeBil- schaft" [2, S.13J, mit sich bringt. Diese Probleme stellen sich auf verschiedenen Ebenen. Zunachst wird die Trennlinie zwischen lebenden und technischen Systemen unscharf, was neben einer philosophischen Debatte (siehe (?, [}1] ) eine Neuorientierung in wissenschaftstheoreti- scher und methodologischer Hinsicht angeregt hat (vgl. @6J ), deren volle Tragweite erst heute sichtbar wird. In technologischer Hinsicht ermoeglichte die Entwicklung offener Systeme ein "replacing human elements in operating systems that automatically generate intelligence or information which can be used in the operation of control systems"[9, S.67](vgl. 5, S.1oJ ). In Verbindung mit der Entstehung komplexer burokratischer und industri- eller Organisationsstrukturen entstehen damit auch im sozio - oekonomi- 1 schen Bereich formale GrOBsysteme ). Diese Entwicklung "schmilzt tendenziell alle gesellschaftlichen Organisationen zu einer einzigen Form gesellschaftlicher Organisation zusammen: Staat und Verbande ebenso wie die industriellen Betriebe" [17, S.27J. Damit entstehen nicht nur neue analytische Aspekte 4er Erforschung von Verhaltensweisen sozialer Einheiten, sondern in verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen treten nun strukturahnliche komplexe 2 Planungs-, Design- und Strategieprobleme aUf ). Ein allgemeiner Hinweis auf die Komplexitat ) und Interdependenz sozio-oekonomischer Prozesse hilft hier jedoch nur wenig.