An address by the present holder of the chair of psychiatry and neurology in Munich once occupied by Kraepelin. The author is in favour of the union of psychiatry and neurology which is still common on the Continent. His arguments are unconvincing; he expects the psychiatrist to be a skilled neurologist as well as a versatile psychotherapist. He complains that psychiatrists have always been exposed to uninformed attacks from the lay public and the authorities. His explanation, though correct, is too superficial. The psychiatrist, he says, is concerned with man as a person. It is noteworthy that such complaints should come from psychiatrists where their discipline is at its most respectable academically. In Britain and in the U.S.A. psychiatrists are sometimes told that their status would be enhanced if they steered clear of the heresy of psycho-analysis.