[Prevention in community mental health.]

Prevention in community mental health elaborates upon the necessary and sufficient causes of specific mental health centers in the community. The political-administration of research funds is an undesirable reality which becomes necessary if it is to obtain the resources in the community. The article clearly establishes the Catch. 22 logic of dollar-wise administrators who needs to forsee the cost-benefits that will accrue to the community from the work on prevention of mental illness. The fallacy of course, is that the prevention of mental illness or suicide has financial consequences and that there are of a nature to be assessed. Rather, the extent such benefits appear is dependent upon the choice of data one interprets and the instruments one uses to such ends. The experimental rigors seem inappropriate vis-à-vis the number of variables to be studied and manipulated. The ethical and moral considerations of experimentation, when someone's mental health is at stake, seems to outweigh the experimental paradigms.