Psychiatry in the General Hospital: Edited by Bernard Bandler, M.D. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1966. 275 pp.

This volume describes the experience of the Division of Psychiatry in the University Hospital, the major teaching hospital of Boston University School of Medicine and the Boston University Medical Center. It presents a lucid account of the growth and development of the psychiatric services in a general hospital. Although the chapters are written by different authors, the book is unusually well integrated, comprehensive in its scope, and a delight to read. One is impressed that only considerable administrative thought, constant re-evaluation of the department's functioning, and a readiness to change with the evolving experiences made it possible to achieve so high a degree of proficiency in service, training, and research. This reviewer received the impression too that the department of psychiatry at the University Hospital is peopled by individuals who are intellectually curious, personally concerned, and committed to being life-long students of human personality.

A chapter by Dr. James Mann on training of residents in itself is worth the cost of the book. Discussing the theoretical and clinical orientation of the faculty, he states that eclecticism should come with experience and not be the training goal of the faculty. Unfortunately,