A concise and factual report on clinical psychiatry which has grown from the experience of the authors at the Psychiatric Division of

the Cleveland City Hospital, the strength of this Handbook lies in the simple but able descriptive presentation of the psychoses and their clinical features, without too much theoretical discussion. In this honest and unpretending way, the finer aspects of institutional psychiatry are developed with references only to the most essential literature. The little volume may well become a popular textbook for medical students.

To psychoanalysts some of the diagrams, e.g., the one on the personality disorganization of schizophrenia (p. 101), will be somewhat questionable. A well-worded review of the defense mechanism (Chap. IV) is the only instance where the authors accept psychoanalytic psychiatry without reservation. In this booklet there is much practical information of value, in particular regarding drug and shock therapies, nursing care, physiotherapy, and the legal aspects of psychiatry.