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Social Aspects of Psychiatry. Ed. by B. Pasamanick and P. K. Knapp. Psychiatric Research Report 10. (American Psychiatric Association, 1958.)
American psychiatrists have continued to study the effects of various drugs on abnormal behaviour with great thoroughness, ingenuity, and enthusiasm. It is still uncertain whether this experimental research will lead to important new discoveries. In a symposium devoted to methodology Lawrence Kubie discussed the relationship of psycho-analysis and psychopharmacology. He warned against the overestimation of behaviour changes resulting from drug treatment and expressed the fear lest concentration on symptomatic improvement may divert research from the basic problems of mental disorder. He