Mental Health and the Community

these are two books from Behavioral Publications in America, which is an off-shoot of the Community Mental Health Journal. The first is a series of original contributions by different authors, some of whom are already well-known. The aim of the collection is to 'bridge the gap between theory and program implementation', by describing how proposals have been carried out in different parts of the U.S.A. The subjects range from 'efforts to break the destructive cycle of poverty in Topeka' to the closing Utopian description of 'planning the new city of Columbia'. The second is a bibliography of 1,500 references, published during 1960-67, and coded under refer-