This book is written by a clergyman who has had extensive experience with the mentally sick, and has come to the conclusion that the psychosomatic point of view is the most adequate approach to an understanding of the problem. Intending it primarily for clergymen, the author gives a resumé of modern clinical psychiatry by the use of quotations from, and by frequent references to, technical works listed at the end of each chapter. Wise deplores the tendency of 'clergymen to assume the rôles of psychiatrists or social workers', stating that his work is not intended as 'a book of rules or procedures for producing religious cures of the ill… It is rather meant to be a discussion of basic problems which should serve as