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Professor Bender deserves gratitude for having collected Schilder's contributions to the study of interhuman relations. In this volume the individual is viewed as a part of the community. The book contains some of Schilder's most mature writings; several of the articles were completed a short time before his death. Schilder was an original rather than a systematic thinker. In his formulations he did not aim at finality, and this is probably one of the secrets of his popularity. The twenty chapters of this book range over a wide field. Of special interest is the article dealing with the analysis of ideologies. It was this line of approach which led up to the work on groups and group therapy by which Schilder opened up an entirely new field. Another group of articles deals with aggression and crime, a field in which Schilder used the method of the questionnaire which to him yielded interesting results. Schilder was not committed to any one method; there was hardly any with which he did not experiment. In fact, he did not greatly care about method. In this respect he may appear out of date to those who tend to make a fetish of method, a preoccupation only too often combined with lack of ideas. Schilder, on the contrary, bristled with ideas. This is the reason why many an expert, though he may occasionally shake his head over Schilder's generalizations, will read this book with profit and find it a source of interesting hypotheses to be elaborated and tested.