To the Editor:— Never was communication better designed to prove that psychiatrists don't know children. Training in Psychiatry for Physician Mothers ( JAMA 189 :11 [July 6] 1964) by Dr. H. I. Kaplan et al reveals that psychiatric thinking at the New York Medical College equates motherhood with fatherhood. Hasn't all their deep analysis taught them better? Apparently they also don't understand the basic facts of housewifery. Making it possible for young mothers to desert their small children throughout most of the latter's waking hours suggests an unawareness of the importance of imprinting on fresh young minds. Theirs is blueprint for emotional instability, if I ever saw one! The physician mothers are to get some night duty in order to help them to gain a sense of responsibility. But their own children would be far better teachers. Twenty years ago I might have signed up for such program,