The International Congress on Mental Health

same people as those attending the Conference on Mental Hygiene, and this meeting, which was the longest of the three, was also by far the most experimental and interesting. The Preparatory Commissions, of which there were some 350 in 27 different countries, were perhaps the most important part of the whole Congress activity. The reports from these interprofessional discussion groups were edited and integrated for the use of the International Preparatory Commission which met at Roffey Park for a fortnight prior to the Congress. Something of real importance has been done in bringing together people from different professions who hardly knew each other in many cases, who have now learnt to work together for a common goal and are in