The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry.

The author in his introduction states the irreconcilable differences that have arisen in the application of legal dicta of responsibility in mental disease. He makes no effort to reconcile them. To attempt to do so at this time would be not only useless but also untimely. He contents himself with urging the physician, on the one hand, to obtain some juristic knowledge and, on the other, those who are charged with the administration of the criminal law to equip themselves in psychiatry to such an extent that they may be able to understand the principles underlying opinions given by physicians.

The discussion of the general relations of jurisprudence and psychiatry opens with a historical retrospect showing the genesis of the varying views in relation to responsibility in mental disease as they have been formulated from the earliest times. The author points out that psychiatry has had to travel a difficult