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This booklet contains four papers given by the above mentioned authors at the Bicentennial Conference of the University of Pennsylvania. The subject matters given before a general medical and enlightened lay audience are presented in a clear and vigorous language. In the discussion of various forms of shock therapy, Strecker points out that their value has been not so much in curing patients, as in providing a background for a better understanding of schizophrenia and in establishing more accurate prognostic criteria which may apply to any method of therapy. Strecker puts it very aptly when he states that the by-product may be more valuable than the product originally sought.
In Lewis' paper on Psychosomatic Medicine, we can see the bewilderment of the psychiatrist when he faces the child he has created—psychosomatic medicine. It is becoming more and more obvious that as yet we have no precise method which can correlate physiological and psychological functions.
The papers by Brill on Therapeutic Advances in Psychoanalysis, and Ruggles on Psychiatry in Social Relationships are well presented.