Clinical Psychiatry for the Layman

do ? sPea^ to lay audiences on psychiatry are aware of the need for brief, acc 'C exP?sition and the problems and pitfalls of such simplification. Dr. Fish has in challenge and presented the bare, but intelligible facts of clinical psychiatry sam ^a^es-This book is not a popular introduction to psychiatry; it bears much the genf ~^a^onship to clinical psychiatry as a good first-aid manual to medicine and sur-listed symPtoms and signs of mental disorder and various mental mechanisms are sex ian^ ^efined-The neuroses and psychoses, the personality, psychosomatic and t'on borders are briefly described. Discussion of treatment emphasises the limita-Pre<;S ^'S concise approach. All aspects of current therapeutic controversy cannot be jjas i but most professional readers will feel that a reasonably balanced statement 0f ? een made. The book will appeal to, and provide instruction for, a wide audience auj-n erested laymen; also, it will be helpful to those who, having to address a lay lce, wish to be brief and simple, yet as precise as possible.