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This comprehensive presentation of psychiatric thought, accumulated since the publication of Volumes I and II in 1959, promises to stimulate the same enthusiasm as the previous volumes. This third volume not only includes new material but brings up-to-date the material presented in the first two volumes.
There are forty-nine contributors, each an acknowledged authority in his field. Every paper is of high quality and is followed by an extensive bibliography. As the editor points out in the preface, the most recent contributions are found in the latter part of the volume, which is divided into six parts: Clinical Studies, Aspects of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Biological Studies and Artificial Syndromes, Biochemical Psychiatry, Psychiatry and the Community, and Conceptual Psychiatry.
Biochemical Psychiatry deals with the newer developments in drug therapy. The section on psychiatry and the community concerns itself with all aspects of the relation between the mentally ill and society. Part Six emphasizes the conceptual life of the organism as a dynamic force.
This reference book, which includes a name and subject index, is a worthy addition to the library of every psychiatrist and should be of inestimable value to the psychiatric student.