Massermann begins by appealing to psychoanalysts: 'We must modify our traditional but often anxiety-cathected and defensive isolation from our parent fields of psychiatry and medicine, leave our sound-proof (but not bomb-proof) offices, and contribute our own efforts and special abilities to the active defense services already being rendered by our medical and lay fellow-citizens. Moreover, we must endeavor to tone down our assertions of esoteric, noncommunicable knowledge, and learn to talk and work effectively with our academic colleagues, with social agencies, and with civilian, political, and military authorities.' He continues by clearly pointing out the many significant and important functions a psychoanalyst is afforded in the Civilian Defense Program. The problem is then approached from the clinical, theoretical, and research points of view.