The Neuroses in War: By Several Authors under the Editorship of Emanuel Miller, with a concluding chapter by H. Crichton-Miller. (Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1940. Pp. xii + 250. Price, 10 s. 6 d.

This book has been written by a number of doctors most of whom were engaged during the last war in the treatment of service or ex-service men suffering from neuroses. Previously the publication which had examined most widely and generally the experience of the last war was the Report of the War Office Committee on 'Shell-shock', which was published in 1922. By that time however we had embarked on our illusory sea of security, war was finished and war neuroses had lost interest, except for those whose province it was to continue the treatment of the large number of cases which had come under the care of the Ministry of Pensions, many of whom remain to this day. Now war neuroses are again on the picture, and this volume which embodies the experience gained in the last war, with the addition of the knowledge gathered from the course and treatment of the cases in subsequent years, will be of great value to all who have the duty of handling these cases. Dr. Crichton-Miller gives an excellent summary of the views expressed by the individual writers; and appendices contain pertinent extracts from the Report of the War Office Committee and a useful summary of drug treatment which may be adopted in selected, acute cases as a preliminary to psychological treatment.

A feature of the last war was the unexpectedly large number of psychological casualties, but if the lessons of that war, so excellently set forth in