Emotions and Bodily Changes. A Survey of Literature on Psychosomatic Interrelationships, 1910–1933. Second Edition with Supplementary Introduction and Additional Bibliography.: By H. Flanders Dunbar. New York: Columbia University Press, 1938. 601 pp.

A new edition of this book, which has already proven itself to be a standard for general orientation, reference and teaching in a rapidly expanding field of literature, is welcome. It should be

included in any well equipped medical library. The extensive review of the first edition printed in this QUARTERLY in 1935 (Vol. IV, No. 4) still remains pertinent as the main textual body of the book has not been altered.

In a new introduction the author sketches general progress in the field since the first volume was published. A supplementary bibliography gives examples from the literature of 1933–1938 illustrative of points made in the introduction. Dr. Dunbar explains that a revision was not considered feasible. The chief purpose is to present a general survey and to develop a point of view. As the book stands, it continues to serve this purpose as truly today as when it was originally written.

There had been many requests that the new edition include a thorough review of the literature of the last five years. It was decided that this could be done better as a separate undertaking in the form of a journal which would be continuous and more flexible rather than a book, even though the latter were to have frequent revisions. Furthermore, the author is convinced that further contributions should increasingly represent the joint efforts of workers in overlapping fields. The journal, Psychosomatic Medicine, whose first number appeared in January, 1939, is the realization of these aims. The new edition of Emotions and Bodily Changes is, therefore, particularly appropriate as it serves as an introduction and foundation for the better appreciation of the continued chapters afforded by the new journal.

The reviewer would like to reëmphasize the advantage of reading the entire text of Emotions and Bodily Changes for the comprehensive orientation which it affords. Though valuable as a reference book, the cumulative effect of the carefully arranged material can only be ap