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This volume represents a huge labor and is an examination of psychiatric teaching methods in the United States. No effort was spared in gaining the needed information from medical schools, teachers, qualifying boards, psychiatric organizations, etc. The book is compendious on the subject. There are four full sections on Foundations, General Psychiatric Education, Special Training in Psychiatry, Retrospect and Prospect. There is a considerable collection of statistical material, graphs and charts. It is all pretty well assimilated and oriented. There are two very valuable and large appendices on Questionnaires and Techniques in the teaching of psychiatry. These are a veritable mine of standard psychiatric material. The authors stress the psychobiological approach as more inclusive but give appropriate consideration to other approaches.
This is a must book for all libraries but especially medical libraries. It would be exceedingly valuable to the embryo psychiatrist and to those planning to capture their psychiatric diplomas. It would be a good postgraduate course in itself for so many general practitioners who lose more and more patients every day by saying “It's just nerves,” or “There is nothing wrong with you.” Without knowing it the authors have created a textbook of psychiatry, somewhat unique as textbooks go, but nonetheless a textbook. Experienced psychiatrists would find the main theme of the book the only worthwhile aspect if they are interested in what is happening to psychiatry in the medical colleges.