During the last year, scientific activity seemed to be suspended by the war; the societies devoted to the study of mental diseases could not meet for want of members, and the publication of specialist journals was temporarily postponed. It is not yet the proper time for examining the psychiatrical consequences of the present events, and such a study will be more pertinently carried on subsequently to the conclusion of hostilities. So an epitome of French psychiatry only covers a period of seven months, from the beginning of January to the end of July.