Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles delivered the 1951 THOMAS WILLIAM SALMON LECTURES at the New York Academy of Medicine. His subject was The Place and Scope of Psychotherapy, presented on the evenings of November 7th, 14th and 20th. Dr. Ruggles is a former president of the American Psychiatric Association and of the National Committee for Mental Health. During World War II he was consultant to the Secretary of War and chairman of the Committee on War Psychiatry. He is at present general consultant to Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, of which he was superintendent for twenty-six years, and special consultant to the Emma Pendleton Bradley Home in Providence.