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Knowing what is going on in schizophrenia research is more than learning about a single disease, important as that one happens to be. It is to become aware of the multiple scientific disciplines that are being mobilized for understanding it and that are available for other psychiatric entities. Inroads into the affective psychoses, the character neuroses, and the anxieties will require no fewer or less sophisticated efforts to make a real dent in them.
That is why Robert Cancro's annual collection of papers on schizophrenia is of interest to all psychiatrists. The volume for 1976-77 is the fifth in the series. With the help of an international board of advisers, Cancro has had access to the world's literature from which to choose.
The current volume consists of 31 papers from 16 journals and two others written especially for the volume. These are grouped into nine sections and include such subjects as diagnosis, biochemical and genetic studies, and therapy. Each section is preceded by a short comment by the editor, placing the papers that follow in perspective. Cancro also mentions papers not included in the volume that could be of interest to some readers. Four of the 16 journals from which the selections were made supplied over half of the papers included in this volume. These were The British Journal of Psychiatry, The American Journal of Psychiatry, The Archives of General Psychiatry, and The Schizophrenia Bulletin. It would have added interest to have also included the institutional affiliations of the authors.
This reviewer came to review this book because of his interest in the papers on genetic studies. He stayed to read or dip into all of the others.
This is a splendid collection of papers and a good way to keep abreast of scientific psychiatry in its burgeoning stage.