Abstract
<h3>Niacin Therapy in Psychiatry.</h3> By A. Hoffer, PhD, MD. Price, $6.75. Pp XVI and 161, with no illustrations. Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 301-327 E Lawrence Ave, Springfield, Ill, 1962. <h3>Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry,</h3> Vol 4. Edited by Joseph Wortis, MD. Price, $13.50. Pp 385, with no illustrations. Plenum Press, 227 W 17th St, New York, 1962. <h3>Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry,</h3> Vol 5. Edited by Joseph Wortis, MD. Price, $13.50. Pp 380, with no illustrations. Plenum Press, 227 W 17th St, New York, 1963. Before the time of Pinel, Psychiatry was a<i>hose-keeping</i>job—or more correctly a punitive job not unlike that of running a penal institution. Thereafter it became a housekeeping job—more correctly a custodial one with better rapport with patients. With Freud it became a sacerdotal job—frequently one surrounded with the mysticisms of the various so-called dynamically oriented schools. Schools of thought are usually based upon plausible
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