This volume covers all aspects of psychiatric treatment except long-term psycho-analysis. Four of the eight sections are devoted to psychological individual and group therapy. They are of considerable interest to the psycho-analyst because they survey most of the work which is taking place in the vast borderland between psycho-analytic and clinical psychiatry. The problem of therapeutic goals and of the evaluation of therapeutic results receives due attention. The rest of the volume is devoted to the present state of physical treatments. Each section consists of four or five papers and is followed by a summary presented by a prominent expert and by extracts from the ensuing discussions. The standard of the contributions is almost invariably high.