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This volume of nearly three hundred and fifty pages presents the views on psychiatric teaching of nearly thirty outstanding American psychiatrists. It is a report of the conference on that subject held at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in April, 1936. The methods and content of the psychiatric teaching in a dozen leading medical schools are presented. The larger portion of the volume is devoted to the views of Adolf Meyer as they are embodied in the teaching curriculum at Phipps, in a summary of Meyer's philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, and in a detailed outline of his concepts of biology in terms of ergasiology, and of psychiatry in terms of ergasiatry.
A main theme of the book is a plea for the abandonment of dichotomous mind-body concepts in favor of the concept of the organism as a whole, which, mostly through the efforts of Meyer, has so greatly advanced psychiatric thinking in this country. Occasionally however there is still a tone in the report which gives an impression of wishing to be sure that psychiatry is accepted as a part of medicine. This probably is due to a certain uneasiness in psychiatry which comes from the feeling that it does not have the same type of etiological grasp of its data that the other medical