Psychopolitics is a further broadening of psychiatry into the field of political studies and public leadership, following on the development of concepts of interdependence of mental life with the physical and human environment, use of drugs, use of social ameliorative devices, and finally the grasping of qualities of social systems affecting the individual in the community. There is a real need now for psychiatrists to understand the effects of the national and international political systems on the lives of their patients. Attempts to apply modern modes of clinical thought to modern political problems have shown that political behavior is inseparable from the vicissitudes of personality. The author outlines an approach to determine problems, relevant data, and useful findings as a beginning of the growth of a new science. Problems involving the development of this new science range from the lack of initiative of the psychiatrist to the suspicion of the unfamiliar and resentment of intrusion.