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Amongst the factors leading to confusion in psychiatric and philosophic discourse, Lewis has pointed to “… schematization without sufficient evidence, uncritical trust in the adequacy of language, and contention because the contenders do not agree about their axioms or fail to make them explicit”. The author has made a determined effort to avoid these common pitfalls, and she has succeeded to the extent of producing an important book that merits the attention of analytical psychologists. Her orientation is orthodox Freudian, her approach psychosocial. This combination is currently much esteemed in the United States, and the author's views are likely to reach a large audience. She has undertaken the considerable task of expounding the views of what she considers as the main “psycho-analytic schools”, namely Freud and the Freudians, Adler, Horney, Fromm, Sullivan, Jung, and Rank, and of penetrating current diversities of opinion in order to find possible bases of future co-ordination. She seems to be well qualified for such a heroic venture, since she has had considerable teaching experience as professor of clinical psychology at the City College of New York, is the wife of a well-known psycho-analyst, and has had personal experience of psycho-analysis and unusual opportunities for professional contact with members of the different schools. Her language is, inevitably, weighted in the direction of Freudian metapsychology, and many analytical psychologists may not feel at home in a world of cathexes, drives, and systems. However, she makes her position clear from the outset—'I do not wish to perpetuate the error of applying blindly the means and questions of physics to the systems important for