General Practice in North America with Special Reference to Psychiatry, and Its Management by the Family Physician.

I was born in Dundee, possibly inheriting an interest in psychiatry from my grandfather who was, for more than forty years, superintendent of Dundee Royal Mental Hospital, and from my father who divided his fifty years ofpractice between institutional psychiatry and general practice in this city. Educated at Dundee High School and St Andrew's University, I graduated in 1938. Following tenure of posts as resident surgical officer at Dundee Royal Infirmary, and assistant medical officer at Dundee Royal Mental Hospital, I spent six years in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve at sea, and latterly in the departments ofpsychiatry at the Royal Naval Hospitals at Barrow Gurney and Kingseat, Aberdeen. In 1947 I held an appointment at the York Clinic, Guy's Hospital, and attended postgraduate instruction at the Maudsley Hospital, but convinced that my interests lay outside hospital practice, I thereafter returned to general practice in Dundee. I obtained the Diploma in Psychological Medicine in 1947 while in general practice, and proceeded M.D. in 1950. Since 1948 I have carried on an industrial practice in Dundee, with a part-time appointment as assistant psychiatrist with the Eastern Regional Hospital Board (Scotland), and hold a clinical