It is a special pleasure to me to have read Dr Lorand's paper, for during the past five years I have been intimately associated with the Committee on Psychiatry and Religion of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. This Committee, which is made up entirely of analysts, has been attempting to put together a Report that may help to clarify the rôles of the psychiatrist and the clergyman, which should appear in the near future. During its preparation I have been stimulated to clarify for myself the nature of the conflicts between psychiatry—by which I