12 FEBRUARY 1954, Page 13

Sit—How refreshing to read the views of ' Psychiatrist' in your

issue of February 5th. I feel that for too long have, the successes of physical methods in treatment of mental troubles been overshadowed by the analytical couch.

I see no reason to disbelieve that in years to come, as more is revealed of the apparqtus of the mind, physical treatment will replace the abstract. When this day dawns the present cult which seeks to explain everything in such obscure terminology as 'complex,' ego ' and ' sublimated ' what-have-yous will be seen for what it is—a convenient method of describing that which, in our twentieth-century brashness, we are reluctant to admit we do not under- stand.—Yours faithfully,