“Recent Progress in Psychiatry” is a special issue of The Journal of Mental Science. It covers the literature in psychiatry and its ancillary subjects for a five year period, 1938-1942, and in some instances the first half of 1943. In his introduction, the editor, Dr. Fleming, makes a plea for the well-trained psychiatrist to include a wide horizon in his psychiatric perspective. He has arranged the contents of the book to encompass a very broad field, under the following chapter headings: Mental Health