At a time when clinical psychologists are conscientiously attempting to delimit their field and defend their position, felt by some to be encroaching upon the established territories of the psychiatric social worker and psychiatrist, this book on personology can well be regarded as a major effort in dispelling the confusion and in clearing the issues concerning the objectives of clinical psychology. Exception might be taken to labeling the clinical psychologist as a personologist (a term coined by H. A. Murray to refer to the scientist