A Guide to Psychiatric Books with a Suggested Basic Reading List: By Karl A. Menninger, M.D., with the collaboration of George Devereux, Ph.D. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1950. 148 pp.

This book is a bibliography selected to meet the needs of psychiatrists and neurologists, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychiatric nurses, and social workers. Psychoanalysis is treated as a branch of psychiatry, rather than as a separate discipline. Emphasis is on the coöperation of the therapeutic team in treatment. In the introduction the authors stress the tentativeness of their selections, indicate the direction of their bias, and enter a plea for suggestions for revision. Their basic aim is 'to relate psychiatry as an applied technique to psychiatry as a science, with philosophic, methodologic, biologic, sociologic and psychologic background', and as a corollary, the hope is expressed that practitioners in related fields will discover in what ways they can contribute to the progress of psychiatry.

The compilation of the list was begun in 1944, with the help of numerous colleagues. The result is a systematic organization of eleven hundred ninety-three books published in English prior to July 1, 1949. The titles are presented in four main sections with subdivisions. The authors intend to bring the list up to date annually. For the interim, space for writing additional titles is left at the end of each subsection.

To increase the usefulness of the guide, Menninger and Devereux have starred the outstanding books in each category, basing their