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Dr Bradford is a postdoctoral fellow in neuropsychology at Oregon State Hospital, Salem. His book consists of three main parts: a review of the literature; methodology; results. The literature review is a critical one and includes a bibliography of the psychology of religious experience and of the phenomenological psychopathology of schizophrenia. Dr Bradford clearly describes his own phenomenological standpoint, and this helps the reader to orient himself in the later parts of the book. He acknowledges his indebtedness to Karl Jaspers's emphasis on understanding the person being investigated, on Binswanger's Daseinsanalyse, which I cannot translate with confidence into English (‘the study of the individual's mode of being-in-the world’?), and especially on Boss's version which (the author says) overcomes the subject-object dichotomy ‘at a stroke’. In his way of understanding his patients Dr Bradford makes use of Jung's archetypal psychology and of something like active imagination (actually poetically imaginative body-based mythological amplification) around the impact of the patients and their religious experiences on the observer. But there is a special debt to Erwin Straus, who studied the existential