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Vol 5. Edited by Joseph Wortis, MD. Price, $13.50. Pp 380, with no illustrations. Plenum Press, 227 W 17th St, New York, 1963.Before the time of Pinel, Psychiatry was a hose-keeping job—or more correctly a punitive job not unlike that of running a penal institution. Thereafter it became a housekeeping job—more correctly a custodial one with better rapport with patients. With Freud it became a sacerdotal job—frequently one surrounded with the mysticisms of the various so-called dynamically oriented schools.Schools of thought are usually based upon plausible