Psychiatry in Industry.

In the past, industry has found in medicine an aid toward increased efficiency. If the worker is in the best possible physical condition, his productiveness is increased. Now psychiatry is also finding usefulness in this field. The introduction to this book points out that industrial psychiatry is not a method for finding the only position into which the worker may be fitted but that its purpose is first to determine whether the worker will fit into any position which at the moment may be available and secondly to make such readjustments as are necessary when the worker fails to conform to his industrial placement. The material has been collected during a four year study of the personnel problems in a large department store. There are chapters on such subjects as work failures, the selection of executives and scientific job placement. A psychiatric guide is given for employment interviewers. Many case