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As everyone knows, the National Institute of Mental Health is the major source of financial support for research in the behavioral, medical, and social sciences relating in any significant way to mental health and human behavior. Last year, over eighty million dollars was allocated to the financing of projects in basic and applied research in these spheres.
This volume, addressed primarily to a lay audience that doubtless is intended to include Congressmen and the Staffs of Congressional committees, represents an effort on the part of NIMH to justify its stewardship of these large amounts of public money by describing in some detail the aims, methods, and results of twenty-five of the projects it is currently financing. The field is, appropriately, broad and encompassing, ranging from studies of the psychophysiology of sleep through the use of computers in psychiatry to the role of music as a measure of psychological and cultural development.
As would be expected from the present orientation of NIMH, several of the projects are in the area of community mental health and the training of nonprofessionals for service roles in the mental