COMMENTS : THIRD WORLD CONGRESS OF PSYCHIATRY

In closing this attempt to review the Third World Congress of Psychiatry, it should be remarked that it has not been possible to achieve the impossible. No one could encompass this meeting in its entirety. Too much took place, too many papers ran concurrently for anyone to experience it all. Like the fable of the elephant and the blind men, it was felt in different ways. Only by implication could one infer that what one touched was part of a considerable colossus which, like the elephant, was packed with wisdom and like that beast would go trumpeting on over incredible obstacles but responsive to the will of its trainer.