Among the disciplines which are growing at the most accelerated pace is psychiatry, and understandably so. Intimately involved with psychology, general biology, neurology, sociology, cultural changes of any kind, it is constantly enriched by these fields and many others, which all converge toward a greater knowledge of man in health and mental illness.This Book is edited by Javad Nurbakhsh, Hamideh Jahangiri, Nathan W. Ackerman, James R. Allen, Suzanne Taets van Amerongen, E. James Anthony, Edgar Auerswald, Marjorie L. Behrens, Irving N. Berlin, Harry R. Brickman, Eugene B. Brody, Bertram S. Brown, Hilde Bruch, Gerald Caplan, John C. Cassel, Morris E. Chafetz, Jacob Christ, Raquel E. Cohen, Shirley Cooper, Robert E. Davidson, Harold W. Demone, Jr.,George A. DeVos, Jackson Dillon,Barbara Snell Dohrenwend, Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Matthew P. Dumont, Leon Eisenberg, Dana L. Farnsworth, George E. Gardner, Alan Gartner, Albert J. Glass, William Goldfarb, Ernest M. Gruenberg,Beatrix A. Hamburg, Norris Hansell,Portia Bell Hume, James D. Isbister, Gerald F. Jacobson,John J. Laffey, Maurice W. Laufer, Alexander H. Leighton, Alan I. Levenson, Reginald S. Lourie, Alan A. McLean, & Gerald Caplan.

Javad Nurbakhsh, professor de psiquiatria na Escola de Medicina de Teerão Univ., director do Conselho Médico Iraniano, presidente da Associação Iraniana de Psiquiatras, chefe do Hospital Psiquiátrico de Ruzbeh. Membro honorário da Associação Americana de Psiquiatras. Supervisor do Congresso Mundial de Psiquiatria da Associação Psiquiátrica Mundial.