Need for a new sub-discipline in the medical profession.

Abstract

Almost unrecognized, a revolution in the personnel of our major social and political institutions is occurring. Under various names, a new Man is appearing on their tables of organization. The ivory-tower scholar of the past is participating in the practical affairs of life. Where he used to be ridiculed or disguised, he now is accepted on his own terms. This is a symptom of a maturing culture—that economists, sociologists, historians, legal scholars, psychologists, and anthropologists are emerging from their classrooms and laboratories to the board rooms of industry, finance, and government. Perhaps even more revolutionary is the fact that the same thing is happening to the physician who is trained in psychodiagnosis and in psychotherapy. He is graduating from the hospital, the private consulting room, the classroom, and the laboratory to reexamine the ways in which we live and work and play, in which we organize family life and try