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THIS series of lectures presented by Dr. White to the New York Academy of Medicine in 1935 makes most interesting reading both to the psychiatrist and to the layman. Psychiatry is an ugly word but has a wide meaning, and it is a pity that the average layman has little idea of its meaning. To-day it covers not only the work of the old-time alienist but also that of the modern workers in mental hygiene, criminology, sociology and wide ramifications in sundry ancillary subjects.
Twentieth Century Psychiatry:
its Contribution to Man's Knowledge of Himself. By Dr. William A. White. (Thomas W. Salmon Memorial Lectures.) Pp. 198. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1936.) 10s. 6d. net.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 138, 636 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138636d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138636d0