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This manuscript was begun in late 1943 and at that time was intended primarily as a manual for military social workers. The author was then a soldier in the Medical Department and a member of the staff of the Drew Field Mental Hygiene Unit. The original manuscript was submitted to the Surgeon General's Office in Washington, D. C., where it was not approved for publication because the role of the medical officer as the psychiatrist was not sufficiently described. Dr. Lewis L. Robbins, at that time a captain in the Medical Corps and Chief of the Drew Field Mental Hygiene Unit, generously agreed to collaborate on the manuscript, on which he had already given the author inestimable help and had made many revisions. Dr. Robbins revised the manuscript along the lines indicated by the War Department and resubmitted it for approval. Approval was granted. By the time the author was notified of this, however, the war had been successfully concluded, and there was some question as to the advisability of publishing the manuscript as it then stood. Everybody concerned, however, agreed that there was material in it of considerable value to social workers and psychiatrists which should be published. The author therefore undertook a third revision, rewriting the entire work so as to retain and amplify the material of value to civilian practice. It is this final revision that now appears.

Psychiatric social work. --- Psychotherapy.