Among all the interdisciplinary endeavors so much to the fore today, probably none has such a long history as the interrelationships of the ministry of religion and the practice of medicine. The very fact of this long and complicated coexistence, however, has until recently made practical coöperation difficult and mutual understanding rare. Efforts to breach the walls, chiefly by psychiatrists and pastors, have produced a considerable amount of coöperation, but even there the divergent modes of thought in the two disciplines have often been more confusing than convincing. Sandor Rado slightly caricatures the situation in describing conferences of such a group where, while a philosopher sat in the chair, the doctors talked about religion and the clergy talked about medicine, and discussion soared to the highest levels of abstraction!