Abstract

people and therefore we may like to have some Sainsbury , M . J., Psychiatry for Students, Vol. dependent on us as proof of our ability to help. 1, 1968, Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney. Nevertheless, this kind of warning can set up a $1.50 . reaction-formation that makes us shy away from someone's need to be dependent, and ignores that A t the time of writing this book Dr. Sainsbury was army of people whose dependency needs have never Deputy Medical Superintendent, Psychiatric Centre, been adequately met and who need a prop over a North Ryde: he is now Director, The New South long period in order to cope with the stresses of Wales Institute of Psychiatry. He will be remembered living. by social workers generally for his contribution to The Foundations of Social Casework, Sydney, 1966. One must question Dr. Sainsbury's calling mental retardation an "illness" (page 127), and his con­ Although the book under review was written viction that psychosis in childhood does not damage primarily for psychiatric nurse students, he con­ intelligence per se: evidence seems to show that sidered it could be useful to students in other dis­ psychotic children may develop a secondary retar­