When a psychiatrist treats a patient, his aim to restore the lost mental and spiritual balance. He is ready to employ any useful aid. The work of the priest rovides him with an ideal form of help. The priest seeks to diract those under his care towards God, and to educate them in right living. In fact, he is pastoral work acts in ni small degree as a preventive of disorder and loss of balance. The priest will doubtless envisage his proper and direct function as the salvation of souls and the war against sin. But, at the same time, he works indirectly,in a psychotherapeutical sense, by strengthening the soul through faith in God. Thus priest and dictor work hand in hand. In his important and valuable handbook, DR. Dobbelstein shows how, in order to get good result, theology and medicine must understand and complement each other.