Psychology and Psychiatry in Pediatrics: The Problem. Report of the Subcommittee on Psychology and Psychiatry.: White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. Bronson Crothers, M.D., Chairman. New York and London: The Century Company, 1932. 146 p.

This comprehensive report presents a problem and also indicates a hope. Experts on child welfare and psychiatry, a subcommittee of the White House Conference held in 1930, survey the whole confused and disorganized field of child guidance and mental hygiene, and find the practitioner in pediatrics lagging far in the rear of other professions in the field, in interest, activity and required skill. The report contends that the general practitioner should at once enter this field and acquire the necessary attitudes and skill, not only in order to salvage his own prestige and that of his profession, but also to save this field from absorption by other, non-medical, professions, although nowhere in the report does the Committee deny the value of these other professions–that of the psychologist, the judge, the teacher, the psychiatrist, the social worker, etc.–in the handling of children. However, the Committee makes no attempt to determine to what extent the problems of childhood belong properly to the medical or non-medical fields, nor does the Committee present any comparative data on the merits, claims, and accomplishments of the non-medical groups working in this field. The Committee only attempts to appraise