Schizophrenia
This grave mental illness now hospitalizes at least 250,000 Americans. Its investigators have sought to explain it on either a physiological or a psychological basis. The latter explanation is currently favored
Suicide
In the U. S. it causes 20,000 deaths a year, 10 times as many as those due to poliomyelitis. Its psychological and social factors are studied in the hope it can be prevented
Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia
The psychosis ranks with cancer as a problem of public health. It is treated by shock and surgery and now by psychoanalysis, which, though slow and difficult, has had encouraging success