This book will appeal immediately to anyone who is interested in personality make-up. Dr. Moses' attempt to analyse the component features of expressed speech is most praiseworthy, and his work in correlating varying changes in speech with underlying psychogenic conflicts is one which the psycho-analyst, who depends so much on speech communication, will find most absorbing. The author rightly stresses that it is time now to go beyond intuitive understanding of voice changes, and that there should be fuller knowledge of the meanings of speech variation in actual quantitative terms. Many examples of such increased knowledge are given.

With the part of the book that deals with therapy, however, the psycho-analyst will not be able to agree. The author's therapeutic approach is one in which a lack of real understanding of the unconscious is strangely, at first glance, at variance with his zeal for full analysis of the 'voice of neurosis'.