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Despite the many notable advances in psychiatric theory, techniques and therapy in the fields of child psychiatry and child guidance, there continues to exist a regrettable lag or gap between such advances and their incorporation, utilization and dissemination among those who are often in the best position to make use of this newer knowledge, namely, pediatricians and general practitioners. It is only very recently that any attempts have been made to incorporate this knowledge in the training of medical students and pediatric residents. The Commonwealth Fund has most usefully again stepped into the breach by undertaking to publish a volume (all too unusual as yet) which attempts to weld into a unit these psychiatric advances and pediatric practice and theory.
Aside from the Bakwin's volume, this reviewer is not acquainted with many other textbooks for pediatricians which attempt in any adequate way to bridge the gap and assist in clarifying the thinking and practice of pediatricians and the general medical man who does a good deal of pediatrics. Thus the volume under review is in a way a rara avis, although it won't be so for long as it seems it must inevitably be merely the forerunner of many such works.
The author is most adequately prepared to do his job. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Stanford and also the Executive Director of the Stanford Pediatric-Psychiatric Unit. He has had long experience as a practicing pediatrician and as a child