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In this article Sarro explains the main reason for the creation of the Revista: to fill the gap in the psychiatric thought of today for those psychiatrists who use Romance languages. He is aware that '… the scientific production of Ibero-America and that of Latin speaking countries in general is not widely recognized or given attention, not because it lacks merit but because of our incapacity (not basically but historically) to overcome our deeply rooted individualism'.
After a general introduction, Sarro takes up ten topics under the heading, Integral Psychiatry. In the first, Psychiatric Language in the Latin Countries, he points out how inadequate 'our' psychiatric language is, how many of the words are imperfect translations of other languages, 'not even based on the direct contact with the phenomena'. '[We] appear intoxicated by other scientific literatures' as if '[we] are not in the habit of thinking scientifically in our own language'. This attitude necessarily forces 'us' into a deficit with 'our' patients in any form of psychological treatment.
His other groupings deal with Somatic and Psychic Aspects, Comparative Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, etc. In commenting on the term 'medical psychology', Sarro draws attention to the fact that 'the psychology needed by the physician was created by physicians. It is Freud and not Aristotle or Wundt to whom