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This volume bears the subtitle, A Survey of Psychiatry and Its Relation to Disturbances in Human Behavior to Help Provide for the Present War Effort and for Post War Needs. It is a record of the Conference on Psychiatry held at Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 22, 23 and 24, 1942, at the invitation of the University of Michigan and McGregor Fund, and various aspects of psychiatry are presented by well known leaders in the field. The book is divided into five parts. The first is called the Philosophy of Psychiatry and deals with its meaning and scope, its relationship to psychological schools of thought and its significance to internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, and geriatrics. Part two deals with research in psychiatry—physiological, psychological, and psychosomatic— and contains chapters on the future of medical research and of psychiatry and the controversial in psychiatry. Part three concerns psychiatry in the training and experience of the individual and contains chapters on education in general and in the lower and higher schools, and also in relationship to courtship and marriage, family life, religion, community relationships, sociology, and the criminal. Part four deals with psychiatry in the war, in the army, navy, and civilian defense, in national and international affairs, in industry, morale, propaganda, and the postwar problems. Part five consists of a review of the foregoing papers with an assigned and open discussion.
It is hardly necessary to present a summary of each of these contributions for the readers of this journal who are acquainted with the views and orientation of most of the contributors. Each reader no doubt will have different scientific and philosophical tastes in his preference for the various chapters.
Dr. Adolf Meyer's chapter conveys his usual comprehentive outlook. Dr. Percival Bailey's discussion of the uses of psychiatry in general surgery is one of the outstanding ones in the book. He describes the patient who in