ABSTRACT
The relationship between psychiatry and political science, like that between psychiatry and history, reminds us of those long engagements that some how never eventuate in marriage. The two have known each other for a considerable period of time, and like all tentative lovers they share an un easy rapport compounded of affection, dislike, dependence, and suspicion. Cohabiting when mutually inclined, they occasionally produce offspring who are feeble and short-lived; if one of these products of timorous cou pling survives into adolescence, it is then cast off by one or both parents and dies. Despite, or perhaps because of, such vicissitudes, the engagement continues, with neither party able either to break off the relationship or to set a firm date for the wedding.
