摘要：Just what would you do if you were asked to establish a psychiatric library with unlimited funds at your disposal? Would you not try to get some basic bibliographies and finding lists? We have taken this step for you and have examined the more important bibliographies in the field of psychiatric literature- and here is our report. Besterman's8 World Bibliography of Bibliographies and Bohatta and Hodes7 include psychiatry. A check in the main medical and psychiatric libraries shows that their small lists are fairly complete. These twenty-five bibliographies themselves are somewhat limited, however. Those which refer to the 19th and 20th centuries are devoted to special topics, such as hypnosis"4 or war neuroses; 8, 38 if they are more general, they are restricted to the literature of one country over a certain number of years,10' 37 or, if they are international in scope, they usually cover the yearly output.5' 11, 17, 28, 29 The only really comprehensive bibliography is Laehr's33 3-volume work, which spans the period from 1459 to 1799. The year 1800, however, is considered the beginning of scientific psychiatry. Already, at first glance, it seems as though our bibliographical resources are too little and too early.
