Cure of Minds

This is a very readable book and gives a very reassuring account of life and work in a modern mental hospital. In such a hospital the author spent a period as an observer. The book is of interest to those in the psychiatric professions because it shows the impact of the mental hospital on the lay person who is neither patient nor staff. It is not a profound book but psychiatrists, psychiatric social workers, and others concerned, will find it worth reading because of the writer's reactions and because the comments of an outsider are often significant.