This timely book is divided into three parts, the first being a statement concerning the goals and meaning of psychotherapy as applied to the conflicts of the clergy. The best chapters in this section deal with primary-process or prelogical thinking. They hold that the analyst, if he is to treat the clergy successfully, must “understand primary-process thinking so clearly that he can distinguish between the healthy, normal prelogical or paleological thinking of the primitive, the child, the creative artist and these same processes as they become distorted.” When the clergyman and the analyst come to understand this, they will see that psychological truth coincides with religious truth, even as the language and symbols will differ.

In the chapter on the role of unconscious motivation, the author discusses death and exhibitionism. Many clergymen fail in their work because of an early traumatic experience with death. Clergymen can act out their needs within their profession. In fact, the nature of their work makes this possible,