Some future historian, with the perspective of distance, may look upon our present interest, this mania therapeusis, in one of many ways. He may see a sick society trying in various ways to heal itself. He may consider that certain segments of our intellectual population have made social devices into therapeutic instruments or have developed techniques suited to present day needs. He may call the many confusions extant in various psychotherapies a sign of our distorted or derivative needs for salvation. Our interest in psychotherapy may be traced to the medical