The author, as well as the writer of the Foreword, Dr. H. Kirby, takes a more optimistic view of schizophrenia than we do on our side of the Atlantic. This would appear to be mainly due to the fact that they include under this heading cases which many of us would hesitate to diagnose as schizophrenia, including Dr. Hinsie's 'pre-psychotic patients' and 'incipient dementia præcox'.

'Diffuse reduction of interests' with 'social inadequacy' appear to suffice for the diagnosis. Yet one patient is mentioned as being of the manic-depressive type, anxiety cases are included, and one author is cited who claims that some patients 'exhibit in the main symptoms that are common to hysteria'.

A patient fell in love with his step-mother, became jealous of his father's attitude towards her, left him and became attached to a fifty-four-year-old