A guide to psychiatric books

Abstract

This volume is perhaps mis-titled. It actually consists of a list of some 3000 books in a variety of fields, divided by the editor in five large divisions: Basic and related disciplines (logic, biology and physiology, psychology, communication, anthropology and ethnology, sociology, cultural history, religion, psychiatric social work); Specialized psychiatry (child, geriatrics, psychosomatic medicine, administrative psychiatry, industrial applications, military applications, legal, criminological and penal, and psychiatric training) ; Psychiatric Therapies (general treatises, hospitalization, psychiatric nursing, adjunctive therapies, physical therapy, electric and surgical therapies, psychotherapy); Preventive psychiatry and mental hygiene (general personal histories, biography and fictional account