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The second series of William Alanson White Memorial Lectures were given by Major General G. B. Chisholm on October 23 and 29, 1945. Chisholm is deputy minister of health and president of the National Committee of Mental Hygiene of Canada.
In these lectures Chisholm examines the causes of the war as a problem in human behavior, evaluates the chances that remain for survival as free men if we go on doing things as we have done them before, and explores the steps which must be taken to make the outcome for survival as free men reasonably possible.
From a casual reading these articles may give the impression that they are only another of those well-meant and eloquent pleas on the state of the world and what awaits it if this or that isn't done; or that they are an attempt to formulate world events in psychiatric nomenclature. The articles go beyond such efforts. They express observations and thinking not commonly expressed by psychiatrists. They bring psychiatry into an urgent relationship with the world as a whole.