A Visual Motor Gestalt Test and its Clinical Use: By Lauretta Bender. New York: The American Orthopsychiatric Association, Research Monograph No. 3, 1938. 176 pp.

In presenting Dr. Bender's monograph the American Orthopsychiatric Association has added a very worthwhile publication to the growing literature on experimental psychopathology. This work gathers between two covers excerpts from the series of contributions of Dr. Bender on the motor gestalt test which have been published in various technical journals in the last few years, integrates them with new critical and theoretical material and reports additional clinical data on the feeble-minded, certain neuroses and psychoses and malingering. The standardization of the test as a performance test for children is also reported.

The data are offered as a contribution to gestalt psychology, to the psychology of the functioning of the personality and to the science of clinical medicine. I think Dr. Bender is completely right in her belief that of all the academic psychologies gestalt psychology offers the greatest number of implications for clinical psychiatry and is equally right in thinking that gestalt psychology itself is enriched by her clinical data. The test she standardizes has already given us much and promises to give more semi-objective data to enlarge our knowledge of personality structure. The test gives us another valuable tool towards the investigation of the