THE TAVISTOCK CLINIC [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,
—I have read with great interest the article by " Crusader"
in your issue of February 6th. There is not the slightest doubt that the treatment of " neurasthenia " has suffered severely in the past from the absence of psychological teaching from medical curricula. It is not, however, fair to leave the im- pression, as " Crusader " does, that nothing is being done in this direction. Several medical schools in London and the provinces provide lectures on psychology for their students. The most ancient of our asylums, Bethkm, provides elaborate courses for the Diploma in Psychological Medicine, and this is also done by the most modern institution of the kind, the Martdsley Hospital, established by the L.C.C. At the Tavis- tock Clinic courses of lectures both for students and for general practitioners are held twice a year. No student—cer- tainly in the London area—who is really anxious to get an insight into this department of therapeutics need complain of the absence of opportunity.—I am, Sir, &c.,
A. FLORA NEWBERY, Secretary of the Tavistock Clinic. 51 Tavistock Square, W.C. L.
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