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This article presents information about the book "Report of the International Study Group of the World Federation of Mental Health," vol. 2, "Mental Health and Contemporary Thought," and vol. 3, "Mental Health in the Service of the Community," edited by Kenneth Soddy and Robert H. Ahrenfeldt. In June 1961 the World Federation of Mental Health assembled a study group of twenty-four experts for an extended period of extempore discussion. The participants prepared working papers in advance of the meeting and tape recordings were made of the discussions. Using these materials two members of the Study Group have produced a three-volume report of the proceedings. In his Preface the Chairman of the Study Group seeks to anticipate criticisms from the natural science purists of such an unsystematic, unorthodox approach to problem solving. In vol. 2, social, demographic, diplomatic and military problems get some decidedly amateurish handling. About ninety pages of introduction and bibliography are common to all three volumes.