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Dr. Glover's book is addressed particularly to the medical practitioner, who is to be informed briefly about the essence of psychoanalysis. 'The task of condensing the theory and practice of psychoanalysis within the space available in a monograph series is by no means easy', says the author in the preface. Even if the book is not intended as the psychoanalytic textbook which is asked for by so many students, it fulfils its limited task very well. Though Glover states 'that clinical psychoanalysis concerns itself with a number of subjects which are not usually regarded as medical', and that 'actually a study of anthropology is a useful preamble to the everyday practice of medical psychology', the book in general is limited to the medical aspects of psychoanalysis, dealing less with technique and more with the neurotic mechanisms and with the indications and prognosis of psychoanalytic therapy. The book is divided into three sections. The first deals with psychology ('an adequate grounding in the structure and function of the normal mind is as necessary to the clinical psychologist as a knowledge of anatomy and physiology is to the organic physician'). The second