Twenty years' practice of psychiatry in a general hospital and teaching of medical students have convinced me that the most important problem before our profession is the need for greater interest and more accurate knowledge about psychiatry. Mistakes in diagnosis and treatment of patients with functional, psychoneurotic, psychosomatic or actual psychotic disorders are so common as gravely to discredit the acumen of the medical profession. These mistakes encourage patients to make the rounds of doctors and even of cultists and quacks, contribute largely to public dissatisfaction with medical care, since benefits of treatment are only temporary, and work heavy financial hardships, which help increase the clamor for some system of socialized medicine. Recent great medical advances in surgical technics, chemotherapy and metabolic disorders have far surpassed the diagnosis and treatment of our largest group of patients, those with emotional disorders, largely because the general medical man still ignores greatly improved