American Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 6

New Psychiatric Frontiers: “Where do we go from here?” What will psychiatry be in the future? The human being being what he is—subject not only to biological nature but to an environment that is rapidly changing its multiple systems of sym​bols, feelings, and values—predictions are impossible except for the immediate future. For us it will be sufficient to have given an adequate representation of psychiatry in our own time. (2654 pp.)