The Surgeon General of the United States Navy reports on the history of psychiatry in his branch of the service prior to World War II and the lessons learned therefrom. As a result, the Navy employed civilian consultation, the screening of inductees previously examined, psychiatric examinations of enlisted women, immediate psychiatric treatment of overseas casualties, and follow

up treatment where indicated. Finally, the Navy pioneered to a considerable degree in the field of group psychotherapy. He believes that the contribution of psychiatry to the present emergency has been not only in the new field of psychosomatic medicine but also in clarifying the psychodynamics of everyday life. Thus psychiatry 'can no longer reside within an ivory tower divorced from medicine or education or our social life'. Psychiatric knowledge itself has been enriched by the wartime experience.