Since its first edition in 1943, this short and practical introduction to psychiatry is little changed in organization, material, and approach. A brief discussion of psychosomatic medicine has been added, conservative and reserved, but leaving the door, if not the mind, just open enough for eventualities. There is little knowledge of psychodynamics—the emphasis heavily put on description of psychiatric syndromes, 'constitutional' etiology, physical treatment and legal management. The chapter, Wartime Psychiatry, has been retained, with the bleak prediction, 'that many of the important stresses that operate in war, such as regimentation and frustration, are likely to continue in the postwar world' of Great Britain.