This interesting and well written little book, consisting of a series of lectures delivered in England to battalion medical officers and general practitioners, is well adapted to its purpose of helping them deal with patients under strain of war. The book reflects the wide experience of the author with military and civilian cases in both the present and past wars.

Although Dr. Ross uses many psychoanalytic concepts he is critical of the attitude of many unnamed freudians. He protests their suggestion that 'his own unconscious unkindness' lies behind his stress of the rôle of unconscious gain through illness and of the unconscious desire to be discharged from military service. He