PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL CLUB THERAPY

Abstract

The shortage of qualified psychiatrists has become a constant refrain wherever mental hygiene is considered, and the high cost of psychiatric treatment proverbial. Solutions do not seem readily available. It is not alone the shortage of trained psychiatrists which seems a crying need. What looms even larger are the needs of preventive psychiatry. A few authoritative sources crying in the wilderness do not supply the coverage needed. Moreover as Binger and others have cautioned, there is even a danger of "wild psychiatry?' when psychiatric principles and tenets are bandied about in nondescript sources