PROJECTIONS FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

As we have stressed in the training of our medical students, we ourselves must be prepared to practice whatever technique each patient requires. As we continue to deal with problems newly brought to us by the public, we must ask ourselves how much our new solutions are directed to patients' problems and how much to our need to resolve our own anxiety. Avoiding enthusiasms and doctrinaire positions, we must leave our doors open for the new idea, or the old, in order to meet the problems and opportunities which confront us.