Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem

Assistant Editor's Note: This month's Forum features a potpourri of reviews. As in previous collections, this one covers a large range. Dana Kober revisits a classic, The Mental Hospital, by Stanton and Schwartz and takes us back to psychiatry in the 1950s, a time when patients lived in hospitals for months or years and interpersonal relationships served as the primary therapeutic intervention. Paul Hamburg reviews Paulina Kernberg's reinterpretation of Lacan's psychoanalytic theory. This fascinating volume will inspire us to strengthen our understanding of developmental theory and help us to conceptualize common child and adolescent psychiatric illnesses using a novel mirror paradigm.