Psychoanalytic Research: Three Approaches to the Experimental Study of Subliminal Processes (Psychological Issues, Monograph 30): Edited by Martin Mayman. New York: International Universities Press, vii + 135 pp., $7.00.

This is the thirtieth monograph in an illustrious series, the first of which was Identity and the Life Cycle by Erikson, and which boasts such outstanding contributions as Rapaport's The Structure of Psychoanalytic Theory and Gill's Topography and Systems. Such works command careful and repeated study and are used by many institutes in their courses on theory. This monograph also merits careful attention: it is good to know how "they" are thinking.

"They" are that gifted group of psychoanalytic psychologists, many of whom began at Menninger's with Rapaport and have now scattered to universities throughout the nation. They not only contribute to the psychoanalytic literature and are intimately conversant with psychoanalytic theory, but they comprise an impressive group in American psychology, respected even in academic circles, where most analysts, Freud among them, are considered passé.

Almost all the authors fit this pattern, Mayman, the editor, being a classic example. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Kansas, after having spent three years studying clinical psychology with David Rapaport at The Menninger Foundation. He graduated from the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1960. Seven years later he began teaching in the graduate clinical program of the