The WESTERN STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE AND CLINIC of Pennsylvania held its Second Annual Conference in April, 1947 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference, intended to coördinate the concepts and services of psychiatry, psychiatric nursing, clinical psychology and psychiatric social service, had as its general themes, The Place of Psychiatry in General Medicine, and Problems in Psychosomatic Medicine. Winfred Overholser, M.D., of Washington, D. C., President-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, was principal speaker at the dinner meeting on the subject, Psychiatry and the General Hospital.