Prevention in Psychiatry

Ed Eugene S Paykel, Rachel Jenkins, Gaskell/Royal College of Psychiatrists, pounds sterling12.50, pp 215 ISBN 0 902241 72 9

Despite the distress and disability that mental illness causes, attempts at prevention have until recently been rather tentative. However, prevention is now emerging as an “attractive and powerful concept”; already there have been one or two small but spectacular successes in psychiatry—for example, the identification of the fragile X gene, responsible …