I felt that the Editors achieved all of their stated goals in assembling these very readable, inspiring and enlightening essays.
Richard T. White (A senior psychiatrist's perspective), Australasian Psychiatry, 23(2), 2015
Psychiatry: Past, Present, and Prospect reminds us how diverse and enriching yet ambitious and ambivalent our speciality can be. . . As the editors state in the introduction, this is a book about the elders of psychiatry passing on their wisdom to the next generation of psychiatrists. . . No matter where you are in your career, I believe that you can learn a lot from these words of wisdom by our elders.
Shuichi Suetani (A trainee's perspective), Australasian Psychiatry, 23(2), 2015
Psychiatry - just like individuals - should ask itself the central existential questions: Where am I now? Where do I come from? Where am I going? This book gives quite a few nuanced and thought-provoking answers to these questions that we psychiatrists should engage ourselves thoroughly with occassionally... The result is a very knowledgeable, readable and critical/charming review of psychiatry's development - knowledge-based, action-related and attitudinal.
Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association
This is a thought-provoking book on the developments in psychiatry since the 1950s, both good and bad, and how they have affected present-day practice and the future course of psychiatry... Readers may not agree with every expert's opinion, but the book provides welcome food for thought.
Doody's Notes
Each contributor writes about his or her personal involvement in the speciality, which is almost always the history of the advancement in that particular field....No matter where you are in your career, I believe that you can learn a lot from these words of wisdom by our elders.
Shuichi Suetani, Australasian Psychiatry,