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Sixteen essays and six discussions by twenty-three contributors from various fields comprise this book. The venture into prophecy is the central and unifying purpose of the symposium; it arises from the challenge to the essayists by the editors to enter thoughtfully into the science fiction of psychiatry. Interdisciplinary collaboration is emphasized; one curious theme is the insistent questioning of the future of psychoanalysis, which seems to be considered doubtful.
The papers by Rioch, Kallmann, Bender, and Lewis are outstanding reviews of basic research that lends excitement and promise to what lies in store for psychiatry. However the explicit predictions are not so imaginative as might have been expected from the advances reported. Basic research in neurochemistry and neurophysiology is well recounted and need not be recapitulated here. Though it is not possible to list all the predictions made, some of them we should discuss.
Kallmann tells of the genetic research on mongolism and sex deviations and predicts that research at the molecular and chromosomal