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The contents of this volume are the end result of one of the Thomas William Salmon Memorial Lectures. The author formerly was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona and developed his knowledge of the psychiatry given with the Spanish Republican Army.
Sherman said that “War is Hell.” It is obvious that psychiatry in war is a hellish psychiatry. Methods are crude and rough and obtain the desired results. The volume is correctly called Psychiatry in War. Some day someone will write a book with the title the Psychiatry of War. Mira is eclectic in theory and method using material obtained from all quarters. In one and the same paragraph and for the same condition, and at the same time, one finds advocated the very modern use of vitamins and the antiquated fixation abscess. Some of the methods if used in civilian life would be excellent for destroying a practice. However, in war one does not have that problem.
The volume is the best one so far turned out and stems from actual experience. It will be most useful to all army psychiatrists. Attempts are made to gain results most quickly and the methods used and situations existing are so multitudinous that they cannot be given in a book review.