According to the note on the dust-jacket, this book is intended to 'cover all the basic manifestations of aberrational behaviour, as sexual aberrations, mental aberrations, emotional aberrations, character aberrations, religious aberrations, instinctual aberrations, social aberrations, sensory aberrations, intellectual aberrations, and perceptive aberrations.'

A large order.

As can be expected from this description, the compilation is a hotch-potch. The contributions can be roughly divided into those—the unsigned—that are mainly worthless, inaccurate, naive, vulgar, and sometimes frankly funny, and the signed articles which are reprints from reputable American journals of psychiatry and psycho-analysis. Amongst this group are to be noted Teicher's and Teitelbaum's papers on 'Disturbance of the Body Image', and various useful articles on drug intoxications.