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This book is a review of the psychological methods which are used to diagnose and treat mental maladjustments. The case material is taken from children and adolescents. The author deals at great length with the theoretical and practical findings of psychoanalysis, trying to evaluate the contributions of Jung and Adler from the freudian point of view. Besides the psychoanalytic point of view he emphasizes the 'scientific' approach: that is, experimental testing and statistical results are taken into consideration as necessary complements to psychological research and treatment. The child guidance clinic in its present set-up does not completely satisfy the author, but is fundamentally accepted. The division of work between medical man, psychologist and psychiatric social worker, for instance, fits into the scheme of a child guidance clinic as the author would like to have it, but we do not learn why this tripartition of workers seems to be so satisfying to him. As we do not consider this to be a good arrangement in all cases we would have appreciated some discussion of the point.
From the psychoanalytic point of view we may be well pleased to find that psychoanalysis is given as much consideration as it is in Cattell's survey of methods; yet we cannot be too happy to see twelve volumes of freudian concepts condensed into twelve pages. Those who are not acquainted with psychoanalysis will not understand