Psychiatry on a Sunday

mind, including mental illness. It is a fair sample of the level of the writing throughout the issue, which is clear, informative, balanced, critical, and, above all, responsible. Since mind-trouble is far and away the commonest, and one of the most distressing, of human afflictions, there is a large and ready readership for writings on the theme. The whole subject is so highly emotive, and there is so much difference of opinion between the 'experts', that a callous sensation-monger can readily exploit the relevant facts and figures without much fear of being firmly contradicted and confounded. The people concerned with the Sunday Times' survey evidently set out to help their readers,