How Many Psychiatrists?

major assessment, and in most cases later interviews are of only fifteen minutes' duration. A few patients can be, and are, seen for longer sessions, but this is bound to lead to more widely spaced interviews for others or to longer waiting lists for the first assessment, as the volume of outpatient work has been and is rising rapidly. There are a comparatively small number of psychotherapists, of varying orientation, in private practice, who are able to spend far longer with their patients, but they can treat few at any one time. And there is a