I want to thank Dr. Olsson very much for his kind letter. I have been trying unsuccessfully to introduce phenomenology to the psychiatric profession for the past ten years or so, but the field has become so immersed in psychophar-macology that nothing else seems to be of interest.

Paradoxically enough, my own introduction to phenomenology occurred in 1958 in a commonplace psychiatric setting. As director of training in the psychiatry residency program of the U.S. Public Health Service in Lexington, Kentucky, I brought my residents over to the local Veterans Hospital once a