This book is addressed primarily to psycho-therapists working in mental hospitals. One difficulty inherent in the presentation is that, while the author advises would-be therapists to be analysed and hence implies that they have little or no emotional insight into unconscious processes, the book is written on the whole in psycho-analytic terminology and is derived largely from psycho-analytical concepts. On the other hand, the reader experienced in the theory and practice of therapy with schizophrenics may feel that the psycho-analytic