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The author is here concerned with the sociological approach to social psychiatry, which he finds to have developed along the three lines of psychiatry, sociology and mental hygiene. The sociologists have been largely influenced by psycho-analysts, and even those who oppose Freudian
theory adopt the foundation concept of the wish as the common denominator of human conduct. Six separate lines of development of present-day social psychiatry are enumerated, of which the first three are greatly indebted to psycho-analysis and have made thus far the greatest contribution. They are: (1) The approach to culture through psychopathic experience; (2) Analysis of the social situation; (3) Study of psychopathic maladjustment as a cause of social problems; (4) Endocrinology; (5) Neurology: (6) Clinical psychiatry.