Reality of the concept of organic psychiatry

I speak as one of the new breed of psychiatrists, dealing totally with dementia, and see many parallels between the service run by our small team in putting out bush fires in the community and lowering the general risk of fire—similar, I believe, to the fraught daily life of my colleagues in subnor mality. Why can we not, indeed, join forces and seek to change the skills of the multidisciplinary teams and thereby change their attitudes and thereafter the attitudes of those we serve— the British public? TORQUILMACLEOD Sution Hospital Sulton, Surrey