There should be a good demand for this excellent little book, and many psychiatrists will welcome it as well as the medical students and psychiatric social workers for whom it was intended. The space allotted to psycho-analytical terms is of interest as indicating the extent to which psycho-analysis has pervaded American psychiatry. Most of the definitions of such terms are very full and correct, and we may note for special commendation 'anaclitic object choice', 'ego ideal', 'libido', 'Oedipus complex', and 'reaction formation'. As an indication of how thoroughly the psycho-analytical point of view is accepted we may cite the example of 'homosexual neurosis', which is defined as 'a term referring to the paranoid group of psychoses', and 'hysteria', which is defined as 'a psychoneurotic disorder resulting from a conflict between the ego and one's primitive instincts, in which the latter are repressed and thus excluded from direct or conscious expression. The unconscious repressed material later, through conversion, finds an outlet by an indirect somatic pathway and thus produces symptoms'.