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Training for a Psychiatry of International Relations

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.6.731

While psychiatry cannot solve all the problems of international relations, it can contribute to better understanding of the nonrational and often unconscious factors that contribute to international friction. The author outlines suggested patterns of training designed to equip a few psychiatrists for a new kind of empirical study of international problems that he feels is necessary to define the distinctive contributions of the psychiatric discipline to a broad science of international relations.

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