Diagnostic Psychological Testing. The Theory, Statistical Evaluation and Diagnostic Application of a Battery of Tests: By David Rapaport, Ph.D., with the collaboration of Merton Gill, M.D. and Roy Schafer, B.S. The Menninger Clinic Monograph Series Nos. 3 and 4. Chicago: The Year Book Publishers, Inc., Vol. I, 1945, 573 pp. Vol. II, 1946, 516 pp.

The sheer volume of this ponderous work of one thousand, one hundred and eleven pages, its more than two hundred statistical tables, many of them in multiple sections, and its over fifty figures, strikes the reader with an initial impact that, to put it mildly, is slightly staggering. The quality, rescued from a tiresome and gratuitous exhaustiveness of presentation and from more serious errors of procedure which would have damned a lesser work, remains impressive. For this book exemplifies, contributes to, and to some extent indicates the future of much of the relatively progressive and effective current practice in diagnostic psychological testing.

Since the publication in 1927 of Well's Mental Tests in Clinical Practice, clinical psychology has taken long strides in the broadening of its diagnostic scope, in the perfection of more searching test methods and in the fuller utilization of test results as indirect expressive and projective manifestations of important but not readily accessible ideational content and especially of personality structure and behavior dynamics. A good deal of this progress is competently if diffusely reflected in this book which may, therefore,