Among the disciplines which are growing at the most accelerated pace is psychiatry, and understandably so. Intimately involved with psychology, general biology, neurology, sociology, cultural changes of any kind, it is constantly enriched by these fields and many others, which all converge toward a greater knowledge of man in health and mental illness.This Book is edited by Javad Nurbakhsh, Thomas Szasz, Hamideh Jahangiri, Silvano Arieti, Haraton Davidian, Levon Davidian, Ian Alger,Heinz L. Ansbacher, E. James Anthony, Kenneth Appel,Jack Bemporad, Jules R. Bemporad,Therese Benedek,Viola W. Bernard, Donald A. Bloch,Henry Brill,Robert N. Butler,Nancy Datan,Katrina De Hirsch,Marvin G. Drellich,Abraham Edel,Leon Edel,Henri F. Ellenberger,James L. Foy,Eugene A. Friedmann,Richard A. Gardner, Kurt Goldstein,Ralph R. Greenson,Harry Guntrip,Joseph L. Henderson,John W. Higgins, Irene M. Josselyn, Bernard Kaplan,Kenneth Keniston, Nolan D. C. Lewis,Theodore Lidz, Harold I. Lief, Bruce Mazlish,Rev. James R. MacColl, R. E. Money-Kyrle, George Mora,Wendell S. Muncie, Simon H. Nagler, Bernice L. Neugarten,Daniel Offer, Harold L. Orbach,Ludwig von Bertalanffy,Eilhard Von Domarus, and Ian Stevenson.

Javad Nurbakhsh, professor of psychiatry at Tehran University school of medicine, director of the Iranian Medical Council, president of Iranian Association of Psychiatrists, head of Ruzbeh Psychiatric Hospital.Honorary member of the American Psychiatrists' Association.Supervisor of the World Congress of Psychiatry for World Psychiatric Association.