Child Psychiatry. Modern Approaches

Modern Perspectives in Child Psychiatry

Edited by J. G. How ells (Oliver & Boyd, 1965, ?5 5s.) This is a formidable and weighty book in every sense of the word. Twenty*sl* contributors have written twenty-four chapters on widely different topics, to up a book of 595 large, closely printed pages. This is not, therefore, a book whic11 one sits down and reads through. The reader is more likely to choose a chaptet here and there, in term...

Child Psychiatry

Child Psychiatry

This is the first real volume to deal specifically with the psychiatry of children. There have been many volumes dealing with the mental hygiene of childhood, books that have had merit and value but which have lacked that appeal to make them of real practical value to the pediatrician. In his preface to this volume, Park strikes the keynote of the work in his statement that it "leads the pediat...

Child Psychiatry

Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, and Director, Children's Psychiatry Service, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Oxford. Second Edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications. 752 pp. 45s. Students of child guidance, of whatever professional discipline, are usually told that there is at present no satisfactory comprehensive text-book on Child Psychiatry. At firs...

Modern Problems in Psychiatry

case insucffiient. Drs. Orr and Rows deserve full recognition of their masterly rendering into English. The language of the author is so concise, absolute precision is so vital in expressing intelligibly his subtle and involved reasoning, the intimate knowledge of the subject treated is so essential, that exceptional abilities have been required in the work of translation. This production of Lu...