Psychiatrist Asks Cultural Analysis

In an address to the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in New York on Wednesday, Erich Lindemann, Associate in Psychiatry, stressed the need for greater accord between clergymen and psychiatrists. Temporarily forsaking his Emerson D lectern, Lindemann emphasized the need for psychiatrists to understand people in terms of "their frame of values."

At his Massachusetts General Hospital clinic last night, the Lecturer in Social Relations explained that neither psychiatrists nor religions leaders are guilty, as groups, of misunderstanding each other. However, individuals in each calling condemn the other through failure to grasp the opposing view.

Citing the ministers who also spoke at the convention as men fully aware of psychiatry's worth, Lindemann urged psychiatrists to seek a similar understanding of individual cultural values.