ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about urgent psychic problems of patients, rather than the curiosity of research workers, it gives effective impetus to the recent developments in medical psychology and psychotherapy. Medical science almost in defiance of the patients needs has held aloof from all contact with strictly psychic problems, on the partly justifiable assumption that psychic problems belong to other fields of study. There are many well-educated patients who flatly refuse to consult a clergyman. The fundamental problems of modern psychotherapy are so important and far-reaching that their discussion in an essay precludes any presentation of details, however desirable this might be for clarity's sake. The World War was such an invasion which showed, as nothing else could, how thin are the walls which separate a well-ordered world from lurking chaos. But it is the same with the individual and his rationally ordered world.
