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This book offers a quick overview of some of the areas in which psychiatry impinges on social institutions. Perhaps the most significant aspect of the book is that almost all of the discussion is concerned with psychoanalysis rather than psychiatry.
Apart from a caviling essay by Alfred Kazin about psychoanalysts and their styles, most of the contributors seriously accept their assignment of explicating their specialties in terms of psychoanalytic applications. The wittiest article, by Brock Brower, is a free swinging scrutiny of the various schools of psychotherapy.
Among other essays of special interest are those by Peter B. Neubauer on ‘The Century of the Child’ and John R. Seeley's “The Americanization of the Unconscious.” A sensitive interpretation by Clemens E. Benda searchingly treats the relationship between illness and artistic creativity. The book is an indication of the extent to which the general public is increasingly interested in applications of psychoanalysis. It is also a reminder that the public does not yet appear to be ready for the kind of depth probing that is traditionally the function of this new science of the twentieth century.