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This is a helpful contribution to psychiatric literature—helpful, I believe, because it will serve to spread psychiatric knowledge in medico-legal circles. This is not to say at all that it is a medicolegal book, because it is not; but the fact that its senior author has been identified for years with forensic psychiatry may very well lead those in the field to a wider understanding and application of mental matters.
A treatise by a psychiatrist who specializes in the psychoses attracts those whose principal interests are in the psychoses. The same reasoning applies to those establishing a reputation in the psychoneuroses. Lichtenstein and Small's handbook, conventional in arrangement and context, should spread psychiatry further in the legal field. Its language is simple and direct.
The psycho-analyst will be disappointed with the brevity of psycho-analytical information, but, as I see it, the expansion of psycho-analytic concepts in relatively uninformed fields needs to be handled as it is in this book, namely, by a token offering.