Abstract
“The writers of this book are a dermatologist and a psychiatrist. There are some who regard these specialties as poles apart and consider (to change the plane of the metaphor!) that East is East, medically speaking, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, the dermatologist being a person who looks at the skin and a psychiatrist a person who looks after mad people. To these we would reply that the dermatologist should learn to look beneath the skin, well beneath, in order to assess the feelings and unconscious motives of his patient which may be expressed, however inadequately, in the skin.”
