David Stafford-Clark: Psychiatry To-day

˝Since 1952, when the first edition was published; Psychiatry Today has been reprinted seven times and translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, German, Italian, and Greek. Since it first appeared some important new techniques have been developed in research and in clinical psychiatry; and some formerly promising methods and ideas have become obsolete and been abandoned. This edition takes account of those changes. Otherwise, in spirit and emphasis, it remains as originally conceived; written, in the author's own words, to tell `something of the practical possibilities of psychiatry, something of the size of the problem with which it has to deal, something of the spirit in which the psychiatrist approaches it, and something of the solid and sensible help which it is his aim and duty to provide'. `It would be difficult indeed to find a factual report on a technical subject which would provide such good reading for any intelligent layman' (The Times Educational Supplement)˝