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THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF ADOLESCENCE. Edited by Joseph Zubin & Alfred M. Freedman. New York & London: Grune & Stratton, 1970, x + 342 pp., $15.75.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Psychopathological Association. The seventeen papers are divisible into four categories: Ecological Factors in Adolescence; Developmental and Learning Aspects of Adolescence; Psychophysiological, Genetic, and Internal Environmental Aspects of Adolescence; and finally, Psychopathology of Adolescence. Reflecting the trend of the times, Joel H. Elkes opens with a tribute to Kenneth B. Clark, the well-known psychologist who has devoted such energy to the understanding and education of the underprivileged. In 1969, he was the recipient of the Paul H. Hoch award. His award-winning lecture, "Psychotherapy, Social Pathology and Social Change," is included in the volume. Numerous well-known contributors to the psychology of adolescence are represented in this symposium—among them, Kenneth Kenniston and Saul Rosenzweig. Historical, cultural, and sociological factors play prominent roles in the subjects discussed.
FOUR PSYCHOTHERAPIES. Edited by Leonard Hersher. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970, xii + 152 pp., $5.75 (Paperback).
In a distinctly unique setting, four psychotherapists demonstrate the differences in their approaches toward a "patient." The latter was a staff psychiatrist "with acting talent and experience playing the role of one of his own patients," interviewed before a group of psychologists and others at an "institute on psychotherapy" conducted under the auspices of the Central New York Psychological Association in 1965. Four schools of psychotherapy were represented: client-centered therapy, by David Murray; rational-emotive psychotherapy, by Albert Ellis; psychoanalysis, by Robert Seidenberg; and conditional reflex and reciprocal inhibition therapy, by Joseph Cantela. These authors describe their respective theories