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Edited by Leo Goldberger and Victor H. Rosen, New York: International Universities Press, 1974, xiii + 557 pp., $15.00.
The third volume of this annual of "integrative and interdisciplinary studies" upholds the high standards set by its predecessors. It even marks an advance, in defining a unique editorial policy with a sharper focus on intellectual problems and on issues amenable to empirical investigation.
This year, only two papers deal with topics in clinical psychoanalysis, and even these have a theoretical tone. The late V. H. Rosen develops a conceptual classification of the verbal interventions appropriate during psychoanalytic work; J. Schimek reexamines "the parapraxis specimen of psychoanalysis," Freud's Signorelli slip. A section on child development also stays close to clinical theory; it consists of M. S. Mahler's summary of her conclusions about the subphases of the separation-individuation process of early childhood and of F. Pine's note on the timing and functional significance of libidinal object constancy.
There are two sections devoted to empirical studies, one of them exclusively to sleep and dream research. The latter includes a balanced overview of this entire field by T. Anders and a more detailed review of the work of Richard Jones by C. Umbarger. It also presents two lengthy experimental reports. As part of a psycho-physiological study of nightmares and night terrors, C. Fisher, E. Kahn, A. Edwards, and D. Davis show, among other important findings, that certain night terrors are not dreams at all, but symptoms. H. Fiss, G. S. Klein, and E. Schollar report on a study of "dream intensification" as a result of prolonged interruption of REM periods, with a sophisticated discussion of the theoretical implications of this surprising finding. The other section dealing with quantitative investigations contains two papers. L. Luborsky and J. Mintz report on an elaborate study of the events precipitating episodes of momentary forgetting durin