This compilation of forty-five articles from the periodical literature of psychiatry and psychology was designed as a source book for undergraduate students in abnormal psychology. As such it represents a considerable advance over earlier efforts in this direction since the editor brings to his task a biased eclecticism significantly overweighted towards freudian psychopathology.

The book is divided into four sections: I. Mental Disease in Childhood; II. Psychoneuroses and Psychosomatic Medicine; III. The Schizophrenic Psychoses; IV. Experimental Psychopathology. In the first section, papers by Ribble, Greenacre, Huschka, David Levy and Erik Homburger Erikson are presented. The first article in the second section is Alexander's , reprinted from This QUARTERLY, Vol. III, 1934, a milestone in contemporary psychopathology. Among the papers that follow are ones by Dunn, Kardiner, French, Saul, and Balken and Masserman. The section on schizophrenic psychoses is organized to offer the student a broad