Abstract

Anyone with historical perspective recognizes that morality is not an immutable attribute of society. This penetrating analysis of today's social changes has profound medical implications. No matter what the reader's reaction, favorable or unfavorable, he cannot deny that relationships—interpersonal, within the family or the group—in a changing social pattern may be of such depth as to cause psychosomatic or psychiatric disease. The author views the probable alterations in moral values which will accompany a technologic society whose threshold we have already crossed.