Psychiatrists and clergymen seem to be getting on better and better. When committees representing both groups (including Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergy) met 18 months ago to see whether they could cross-fertilize each other's professions, they set up the National Academy of Religion and Mental Health (TIME, April 9, 1956). The academy's tiny Manhattan office, run by the lev. George Christian Anderson (Episco-Dalian), was swamped with applicants for membership. By now it has signed up some 1,400 psychiatrists (more than 10% of all those practicing in the U.S.), 600 ministers, 200 organizations (seminaries, medical schools, convents, monasteries, mental-health agencies), has...
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