Waning enthusiasms and growing doubts cluster around the worth of the shock therapies as time shows their effects to be limited and transient. Fresh hopes for the relief of mental illness by physical methods begin to swell the literature in accounts of the results of prefrontal leucotomy.

This British study is a calm and sincere statement of experience with two hundred cases, written in a readable, graceful style. Frank begins with a just objection to clinical psychiatry's heedlessness toward the unique properties of the individual when dealing with descriptive terms, mass observations and statistics. For example, apart from the fact that in almost every leucotomy operation different fibers are cut, the response of a particular individual to