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We have learned to expect in the last several years that anything that comes out of the Department of Psychiatry or Psychology at Yale is apt to be of a high order. For forty years, particularly during the life of G. Stanley Hall, we were justified in feeling that any
psychologist who got his doctorate at Clark University was well-oriented in a dynamic brand of psychology. The writer of this book took his Ph.D. at Clark and is Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale University.
The bibliography is lengthy, and the inclusion of such names as Goddard, Tredgold, Cornell, Wallin, Woodworth, Terman, from the earlier years, and Doll, Yepsen, Wechsler and Mrs. Sarason, from more recent times, shows that the author has 'grown up', as it were, with the subject. Well-selected case-study material and the exhibition of therapeutic techniques make the presentation distinctively good, up-to-date, applied clinical psychology. The various types of mental deficiency are well delineated without the expensive aid of photographic plates.
This is a book which should surely be studied by psychiatrists, psychologists, social case workers, by all workers of professional grade in institutions, clinics, special schools, and by pediatricians who are seeking to gain orientation in the field of psychological pediatrics.