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Edited by John Frosch, M.D., and Nathaniel Ross, M.D., Sidney Tarachow, M.D., Jacob A. Arlow, M.D. (New York, N.Y.: International Universities Press, Inc., 1954. Pp. 724. $10.000. London: Allen and Unwin.)
The Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis. A Comprehensive Survey of current Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice. Volume III, 1952. Edited by John Frosch, M.D., and Nathaniel Ross, M.D., Sidney Tarachow, M.D., Jacob A. Arlow, M.D. (New York, N.Y.: International Universities Press, Inc., 1956. Pp. 682. $10.00.)
The undertaking of Dr. John Frosch and his co-editors to produce an Annual Survey of Psycho-analysis, of which within four years three volumes have been made available, must be called gigantic. The interval of a few years only between the publication of the original articles or books—some of them in French or Spanish—and their final publication in the form of a survey is reasonably brief. The vast space demanded by editors and publishers for the immense work of assessing, selecting, abstracting, grouping under appropriate headings, for the writing of an introduction to each chapter and a summary as well, the time necessary for the final checking, editing, and consultation among the editorial committee—now enlarged to fifteen members; all these factors do not seem to have affected adversely the final result. Those workers in our field who may have hoped to find in the Survey a substitute for our periodicals which will dispense them from the task and at times the pleasure of reading the current literature of psycho-analysis will be disappointed; for them an interval of between two and three years will still be too long to make them feel up to date in reading our publications. The Survey is not meant to be a 'digest' for early and hurried consumption.
Both volumes under review have turned out richer in content than the first, reviewed in vol. 34 (1953), pp. 156–158, of this Journal. The number of articles abstracted amounts to well over 250, a figure in