The Psychoanalytic Study of Society: Vol. 5. Edited by Warner Muensterberger and Aaron H. Esman. New York: Int. Univ. Press. 1972.

This latest volume of the series should help to dispel the commonly accepted dichotomy between 'clinical' and 'applied' psychoanalysis. In opening this volume one is faced with the fact that, at the present time, all directions of research must go hand in hand, if psychoanalysis is not to remain an isolated discipline, untouched by the profound psychosociological changes which are taking place in all cultures. Although, for many years, psychoanalysts have been, and often keenly, interested in sociology and anthropology, no real working dialogue has been established between them and the various workers in these fields. 'Applied' psychoanalysis has often been considered as a curiosity and sometimes viewed with outspoken distrust, as being far removed from clinical practice. The 'cultural' theories of psychoanalysts, even when formulated by Sigmund Freud—one of his earliest statements goes as far back as 1908 on 'civilized sexual morality'—as well as those voiced by Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse, T. W. Adorno and many others, have been rejected by the practising analyst as being mere speculations; marginal works by marginal workers, and disregarded as such. Similar remarks would apply to the anthropological theories and sociological contributions which have been considered as irrelevant to our clinical