ber Die Durch Den Krieg Verursachten Änderungen in Unserer Psychischen Ökonomie, I. (On the Changes in our Psychic Economy Incident to War, I.): E. Glover. Int. Ztschr. f. Psa. u. Imago, XXV, 1940, pp. 336–345.

Glover emphasizes that the war represents a unique opportunity for psychological research. His first impression of the effect of the war is that neurotic people act more normally and normal people more neurotically. The apparent normality of the neurotics is probably a distraction from neurotic anxieties by real dangers and is only temporary.

More important than the reactions of individuals is the psychology of groups. The most difficult task in the psychology of groups is the determination of what is normal and what is pathological. [The reviewer believes that the degree to which the data of the psychopathology of neuroses can be applied to group phenomena is debatable.] Glover believes certain parts of a group to be analogous to the differentiated layers of the individual mind. Ethical, religious, or pacifistic societies, for example, serve the functions of the superego; certain public institutions, like the food industry, and organized transportation, correspond to the reality function of the ego. He hopes that the study of such institutions or group phenomena will permit certain conclusions about the