Psychiatry in the U.S. is altering its course. Last week, at the 112th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, 2,200 members* and 1,000 guests packed a dozen Chicago meeting halls for five days of reports and speeches that showed a momentous 90° turn to the right. It is a turn from a narrow course, oriented on Freudian psychoanalysis (TIME, April 23), which had been followed for more than a quarter of a century, to a broader channel made by the confluence of a score of scientific disciplines and at least six major psychiatric research...
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