PSYCHIATRY IN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

Perhaps the outstanding single impression has been the increasingly important contribution which American medicine and psychiatry are making in many countries. This role will certainly tend to increase, if for no other reason than because of the large proportion of foreign graduates currently in our residency training programs (2). In few of the countries visited could my welcome have been more cordial or greater interest displayed in what I could report to our overseas colleagues about American psychiatry.