Psychiatric Clinics for Children

L. Witmer. Commonwealth Fund. $2.50. Despite the experience of humanity since time began of the importance of " mind " in relationship to " body public imagination has not yet been stirred to any great extent, at least in this country, by the greatest of modern adventures in the field of human welfare, that of psychiatry. This is perhaps scarcely surprising in that medicine has tended to deal with the physical state of the patient, to the detriment of the mental. But there is a growing tendency to recognize the unity of the mind-body relationship and it is to be hoped that the care of the sick will develop along these lines after the war. Those to whom the subject and its practical application make an appeal will find in Dr. Witmer's book an interesting survey of the developments in America in the field of psychiatry which led to the establishment of child guidance clinics.