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Dr. Braude has written a text book of clinical psychiatry of ambitious proportions and scope. Being impressed with the bewilderment of medical students in the 'seeming inchoate, controversial and uncertain position' of psychiatry, he wishes to ease their lot.
The book is divided into four parts: an introduction; a section on the major psychoses; one on the neuroses and psychoneuroses; and one entitled simply 'Miscellaneous'—which includes malingering, mental deficiency and psychoanalysis. The book attempts to cover too much. One wonders whether the author has not drawn too readily on the incompletely digested notes of clinical cases, expanded through the addition of general observations which increase the bulk but do not clarify. Neither psychiatric concept nor description of neurotic syndromes is presented with sufficient precision and economy to be forceful. Consideration of many practical details of management tends, against this background, to increase the sense of disproportion and confusion.
The medical students will still need help.