Psychopathology of Forced Movements in Oculogyric Crises: By Smith Ely Jelliffe. New York and Washington: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co., 1932. 215 p.

An honest review of this monograph must be unsparing, even if it leads to sharp criticism of one who has always battled wittily and often effectively to win respect for dynamic psychology. In a sense it may be looked upon as a tribute to a large and generous and adventurous spirit that the author's original contributions have been subjected so often to vigorous and justifiable attack, even at the hands of the friends and coworkers who hold his spirit in high and affectionate regard.

To this reviewer the present volume contains much to deplore, and little to commend. It seems to embody the author's most serious faults of style, of methodology, and of reasoning. This is all the more regrettable since there can hardly be a problem more searching in its psychiatric implications than the question which is raised by the occurrence of obsessional thoughts in association with oculogyric crises in cases of chronic encephalitis (post-encephalitis).

Stylistically one must quarrel with the author's choice and use of words, and with his sentence structure, almost line by line, from first to last. It is not asking too much to expect a standard of workmanship in editing a book which will eliminate such clumsy and complex paragraphs as the fourth paragraph on the first page of the introduction, such avoidable repetition of words as occurs