Practical Psychology in Character Development: By Rudolph Allers, M.D. An abridged and rearranged version of the Author's Psychology of Character, made by Vera Barclay. New York: Sheed and Ward, Inc., 1934. 190 p.

Dr. Allers believes that "a purely naturalistic psychology, however complete and however well founded, must eventually break down unless it is coördinated with religious knowledge and principles", that "psychological problems lead us into the realm of revealed religion", and that "the physician must never forget that when he provides a bridge by which the neurotic can cross from his little island of isolation into the world of humanity, he may also have to act as liaison with the supernatural". His psychology is borrowed complete, and with acknowledgments, from Alfred Adler. The religious addition is purely gratuitous, and is Dr. Allers' only contribution. If there is any attempt to substantiate the above mentioned beliefs in the complete work it does not appear in this abridged version, nor is there any synthesis of them with the Adlerian psychology. There is no need here to review the tenets of individual psychology. They are sufficiently well known to readers of the QUARTERLY.

A few random quotations will give the full flavor of the complete text:

An 'unconscious' as in Freudian psychoanalysis is not taken for granted. Individual psychology prefers to say that the individual does not always understand his own actions or the real aim underlying them.