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The responsibility for editing this book was in the competent hands of Drs. John C. Whitehorn, Carlyle Jacobsen, Maurice Levine, and Vernon W. Lippard, with the editorial assistance of Stella B. Hanau
and Robert L. Robinson. Their task was to organize not only the material presented at the six-day conference, but also the material assembled by preparatory commissions covering community needs; the medical student, medical education; general principles, content and methods of teaching psychiatry to undergraduate medical students; and administrative and organizational problems. There were eighty-nine participants in the conference among whom were thirty-two psychiatrists, eleven deans of medical schools, nine administrators from government agencies and foundations, six pediatricians, six internists, four physicians from preventive medicine, two psychologists, and scattered representatives of sociology, social work, medical school administration, psychology, anthropology, anatomy, etc. The task of condensing this material into a brief book was monumental, but it was done with the conscientiousness that one would expect.
The result has the virtue of defining and expressing those goals which are reasonably attainable today. At the same time the size, breadth and catholicity of the conference made compromises inevitable for any consensus among such divergent groups. These compromises insure the practical usefulness of the book, but also force the omission or slighting of several important issues. The sins of the book, if any, are of omission and not of commission. In pointing out such omissions the reviewer does not minimize its usefulness, but hopes that future conferences will deal with some of the topics which were evaded. 1, No integrated program is described in detail; nor are there any comparisons of different sample programs. 2, There is no discussion of how to train increasing numbers of mature teachers for work in this field. 3, There is no treatment of