PEP | Article - Modern Psychiatry and Clinical Research. Essays in Honor of Roy R. Grinker, Sr.: Edited by Daniel Offer and Daniel X. Freedman. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1972. 320 pp.

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Abstract

This volume, a festschrift prepared by the students, collaborators, and colleagues of Dr. Roy R. Grinker, Sr. and edited by Dr. Daniel Offer, the Associate Director of the Michael Reese Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Institute, and Dr. Daniel X. Freedman, the Chairman of the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, honors Grinker on the occasion of his seventieth birthday for his many clinical, theoretical, research, and training contributions. The thirteen chapters in this book begin with an essay by Talcott Parsons, Field Theory and System Theory: With Special Reference to the Relations between Psychobiological and Social Systems. This area, one of Grinker's main interests, was the focus of conference on A Unified Theory of Human