Reconstruction Therapy

lishers, W. B. Saunders Company. This work which covers a very wide field, deals in a general manner with the rehabilitation, as industrial assets of persons disabled in body or mind, especially as a result of the late war. The writer lays great stress on work as an essential in treatment, and in discussing the proper management of institutions, he insists on the importance of appointing an " occupation director " to be in charge of this branch, which includes a vast choice of occupations, ranging from making knots in string to complicated crafts and arts. The occupation chosen must be suitable to the individual case, and it is very important that the patient's interest be aroused and maintained. It is further essential that the work be regarded as a therapeutic agent, and not from an economic standpoint. While dealing mainly with mental cases he includes the teaching of highly skilled movements, to persons with artificial limbs, the training of the blind and the re-education of the limbs