turbation guilt" which come to the hospital; yet, ho pointed out, society's attitude has been most benign of recent years. The point is: children aren't raised by "society" in general, but by people in particular, who may have radically different views and prejudices than the prevailing temper of the times.

Another questi on er from the floor asked Dr. Baker her opinion of the efficacy of "group therapy" 75. "individual therapy." Dr. Baker answered that there was no "versus" involved; that both were wonderful and indispensable. Dr. Sommers agreed and gave examples of helpful group therapy. She added that group therapy was paricularly helpful in convincing disturbed homosexuals that they were not nearly so unique and different from other people as they thought.

Dr. Sommers said that she believed the answers to homosexuality lay in "multiple causes" and the interaction between the psychological and sociologi oal sides of life. The question was: "Why did this porson choose this type of adjustment?"

Dr. Bessont said that the program he worked for aimed at reducing anxiety so that the persons so afflicted could function in society or learn to relate to evon one other person. He said that they were not interested in changing one's sexual adjustment if that seemed the best adjustment for that particular person.

Dr. Evelyn Hooker, currently at work on a research project called the "The Homosexual Community," queried the panel from the floor regarding the question: "Are homosexuals necessarily maladjusted; 1.e. is there any inherent relation between homosexuality and mental illness?" Mr. Julber asked her to give her views on the questi on.

Dr. Hooker did not feel that would be proper under the circumstances, but after a brief intellectual struggle with Mr. Julber did state that the purposo of her investigations was to prove or disprove the

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