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David Shakow, Ph.D., a major figure in clinical psychology, is one of four honorary members of the American Psychoanalytic Association—a tangible expression of the esteem in which he and his contributions are held by organized psychoanalysis. The volume under review contains a selection of seven papers spanning the years 1946 to 1973 and provides details of Shakow's methods, findings, and conclusions with respect to schizophrenia. It also contains a survey of the Worcester State Hospital research on schizophrenia from 1927 to 1946, an interdisciplinary research project of which Shakow was Director of Psychological Research.
Although the history of the Worcester research is somewhat peripheral to this review, it is pertinent as a pioneer interdisciplinary effort which can serve today as a model for research in terms of its successes and its limitations. The origins of the research began with limited investigations in schizophrenia by the hospital's assistant superintendent, Lewis B. Hill, who subsequently became a leader of American psychoanalysis. In 1927, Katherine Dexter McCormick established a Memorial Foundation for Neuro-endocrine Research at the Hospital. The story at Worcester, according to Shakow, was that Mrs. McCormick's husband, the son of the inventor of the reaper, had been treated for schizophrenia by a well-known psychoanalyst in residence at the McCormick estate. In the family's opinion, this treatment had been ineffectual, which accounted for Mrs. McCormick's strongly antipsychological and antipsychiatric attitude. She stringently limited the use of funds to organic studies.
The Worcester Project came to include an impressive interdisciplinary staff of 70 to 75 people drawn from biology, physiology,