Author's acknowledgments (from the preface to the book)
These
lectures were prepared at
the suggestion of Lewis Miller, who sensed a growing public interest in
an up-to-date account of psychiatry. In responding to Dr. Miller's
invitation, I felt it preferable to present a small number of
contemporary facts in the proper setting of their historical perspective
rather than attempt the impossible task of summarizing everything. And I
also preferred to keep, as central to my themes, the patient whose
suffering is the raw material of psychiatry, and the profession of
medicine, of which psychiatry is but a specialty. In preparing this
material for broadcasting, I am deeply grateful to Aldwyn Stokes for his
support, to Liddy Jambor for her patience, and to Lynn Higgins for her
technical skill.
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