As the title indicates, this book contains a symposium held in 1957 and is concerned with the contributions and responsibilities of the behavioral sciences, including psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology; secondly, contributions and responsibilities of the behavioral sciences and medicine, with special emphasis on psychiatry, and, finally, the joint role of religion, behavioral sciences, and medicine. The volume contains a number of erudite essays presented by authorities in the field of the social sciences, psychiatry, and religion. There are a few 133/711 questions interposed in the discussions with some specific answers, which, however, do not interfere with the essay form of the book.
In Dr. Zilboorg’s essay he states: “In all the discussions I have heard or taken part in on the relationship between religion and psychiatry or clinical psychology, I have found the same singular error of trying to make the psychiatrist