Two opposed views of social psychiatry: the issue

Introducing a collection of papers presented at the Psychotherapy and Social Psychiatry Section of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association (the forerunner of the Royal College of Psychiatrists) during his year as chairman (1964—65), Foulkes outlined some of the reasons for the year’s programme. He found a split in the Section’s membership between those with a more research-orientated and those with a more dynamically orientated view of social psychiatry.