Psychiatry and Foreign Affairs: The Expanding Competence of Psychiatry
HOWARD P. ROME M.D.1
1 Senior consultant in the section of psychiatry, the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 55901
There is ample historical precedent for the involvement of clinical psychiatry in those foreign affairs which, at first glance, seem to lie outside the boundaries as they have been customarily defined. "Ecology" is the key word—not only in the present-day health philosophy but also in the "new psychiatry." To attain the end of realistic primary prevention, psychiatry must elevate its sights to include the politico-social domain within its assigned catchment area.
