PBH Book Analyzes Mental Hospital Work

The completion of a book analyzing the student volunteer program in mental hospitals was announced yesterday by James S. Dalsimer '59, Secretary of Phillips Brooks House.

Tentatively titled The College Student and the Mental Patient: An Analysis of a Volunteer Program, the book was started last spring by Andrew P. Morrison '58, Peter R. Breggin '58, Carter P. Unbarger '59 and Dalsimer.

According to Dalsimer, the bulk of the book is a description of volunteer-student relationships from different view-points. It attempts a sociological analysis of the interactions of Mental Hospital Committee members with each other, with the hospital, and with the University. Psychologically, it analyses the motivations and fears of student workers.

A "sizeable grant" from the National Institute of Mental Health, given last spring, financed the project, Dalsimer noted.