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Psychology, Psychiatry and the Public Interest, edited by Maurice H. Krout. 217 pp. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $4.00

In this collection of short articles psychologists encourage one another to claim for themselves the status, privileges and emoluments of the medical profession. Not only is tiresome medical training really unnecessary for tinkering with human beings, but it may be a source of prejudice in dealing with many “behavior problems.” It follows, therefore, that the physicians and psychiatrists of this country are persecuting the psychologists and selfishly preventing them from attaining the prestige of state recognition as independent practitioners. The author of what is by far the best article in the book reminds his colleagues that “feeling the need of more prestige generally comes… from one’s own inner doubts as to the value of one’s work.”

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Psychology, Psychiatry and the Public Interest, edited by Maurice H. Krout. 217 pp. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $4.00

In this collection of short articles psychologists encourage one another to claim for themselves the status, privileges and emoluments of the medical profession. Not only is tiresome medical training really unnecessary for tinkering with human beings, but it may be a source of prejudice in dealing with many “behavior problems.” It follows, therefore, that the physicians and psychiatrists of this country are persecuting the psychologists and selfishly preventing them from attaining the prestige of state recognition as independent practitioners. The author of what is by far the best article in the book reminds his colleagues that “feeling the need of more prestige generally comes… from one’s own inner doubts as to the value of one’s work.”