You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
This book consists of a series of papers and discussions delivered at a two-day scientific program at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital on its seventy-fifth anniversary. Since the speakers, all former members of the hospital staff, were free to choose their own topics, the book is somewhat discursive. Although the majority of the participants were psychoanalysts, the papers cover the wide range of modern psychiatry in its varied aspects.
Philip S. Wagner gives a detailed picture of community psychiatry as he attempts to apply brief psychotherapy to lower income groups in a project sponsored by a labor organization. Samuel Novey presents an interesting comparison of the differing criteria that must be applied to an evaluation of the results in different modes of treatment. He compares studies on three groups: psychotherapy with psychotics, psychotherapy with neurotic patients from the lowest socio-economic group, and prolonged psychotherapy or analysis with patients in private practice. In the first two groups, the emphasis is upon changing behavior. With the private group, the emphasis is upon the change in the experience of living. Novey points out the limitations of a purely behavioral psychology and stresses the fact that man is not simply what he does, but more particularly is also what he thinks and feels, and that these latter experiences are subject to treatment and change.
Leon Eisenberg writes about social class and individual development. He