This book is a record of the third symposium of the Academy of Religion and Mental Health held in 1959. Although there is only one reference to Jung, most analytical psychologists will find the fundamental approach congenial and the detailed discussion informative and thought-provoking.

Two main issues underlie the discussions—the degree of independence and interdependence of religious commitment and scientific orientation; and the relation of the concept of mental health to the beliefs of individuals and of cultures. In recent years there has been a waning of the positivistic conception of science, which seeks to reduce complex phenomena to basic simple causes, and a development of conceptions of differentiated and interpenetrating levels of organization. In this symposium, personality,