ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shows that private practice provides an economical psychiatric method. A psychiatrist working in private can scarcely do without a clinic, and nothing he says or recommend annuls the value of clinics of one kind and another. It is probably true to say that physicians and psychiatrists are shy to give an account of their private work. Nevertheless it seems to the author that private practice is on the wane, and yet it has points in its favour. His practice is chiefly psycho-analytic and he have not chosen to describe which occupies the major portion of his working hours. His contention is that private practice provides an economical psychiatric method. The main body of his communication is his attempt to present the 54 cases in intelligible form. In private the psychiatrist has the whole case and takes the whole responsibility.
