1. Mental healing under managed care

   • Nathaniel J. Pallone

   Symposium: The Chemistry of Mental Healing Pages: 8 - 16

2. The durability of the talking cure

   • Peter Lomas

   Symposium: The Chemistry of Mental Healing Pages: 17 - 19

3. Mental health or mental healing?

   • Katrien Libbrecht

   Symposium: The Chemistry of Mental Healing Pages: 20 - 23

4. Psycho- versus bio-medical therapy

   • Kenneth J. Gergen

   Symposium: The Chemistry of Mental Healing Pages: 24 - 27

5. Reading the inaugurals

   • Herbert Stein

   Feature Articles Pages: 28 - 31

6. Broken vows, therapeutic sentiments, legal sanctions

   • Steven L. Varnis

   Feature Articles Pages: 32 - 37

7. Life cycle assessment

   • Mark Duda
   • Jane S. Shaw

   Social Science and Public Policy Pages: 38 - 43

8. Managed mental health care

   • David Mechanic

   Social Science and Public Policy Pages: 44 - 52

9. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The federal executive

   • Stephen Hess

   Profile Pages: 53 - 57

10. Revisiting Social Amnesia

    • Russell Jacoby

    Culture and Society Pages: 58 - 60

11. Electoral revolutions

    • Vladimir Tismaneanu

    Society Abroad: Visions of Romania Pages: 61 - 65

12. Resurging anti-semitism in Romania

    • Radu Florian

    Society Abroad: Visions of Romania Pages: 65 - 69

13. Proposed fiscal year 1998 budgets for social and behavioral science research

    • Howard J. Silver

    Special Pages: 70 - 96

14. Books in review

    • Thomas D. Boswell
    • Robert E. Allinson
    • James M. O’Kane

    BookReview Pages: 97 - 112

15. Social science and the citizen

    Departments Pages: A2 - A2

16. Letters to the editor

    • Ralph Scott
    • William H. Tucker
    • William A. Donohue

    Departments Pages: A3 - A7

17. Social science books of the month

    Departments Pages: A97 - A97