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The Rape of the Masses: The Psychology of Totalitarian Political Propaganda. By Serge Chakotin. (George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., London, 1940. Pp. xviii + 299. Price, 7 s. 6 d.)
Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction. By Karl Mannheim. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., London, 1939. Pp. xxii + 469. Price, 16 s. 6 d.)
These three books all deal with modern social phenomena, and in all three the possibilities of 'planning' and the implications of psychology are in the forefront of discussion.
Professor Strecker is a distinguished psychiatrist and is here concerned with the relations between psychiatry and crowd behaviour, his book representing a recently delivered course of Salmon Memorial Lectures at the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Chakotin is a physiologist and