Most of the prefatory issues are extensively elaborated upon in the Prolegomenon, which also contains the complete references to the texts and authors discussed below. Nevertheless, the Preface would be grossly incomplete without touching on some of these issues, books, and scholars. Too, many of this book s chapters (e. g., Mora s, Marx s, D. B. Weiner s) examine and reference important earlier, as well as contemporary, general histories of psychiatry and specialized monographs; in German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Also, in his 1968 Short History of Psychiatry, d- cussed below,...