In addition to its basic function as an integral part of the preventive arm of industrial medicine, industrial psychiatry has an active rôle to play in the rapidly growing field of industrial human relations. As the consulting, advisory, educational and therapeutic functions of the industrial psychiatrist are becoming more and more clearly defined, both in the clinical and in the personnel areas, the value of this type of service is becoming firmly established from the economic as well as from the humanitarian point of view.Abstract Teaser