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PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY—An Analysis in Terms of Learning, Thinking, and Culture. By John Dollard and Neal E. Miller. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1950. 488 pp.
LEARNING THEORY AND PERSONALITY DYNAMICS. By O. Hobart Mowrer, Ph.D. New York: The Ronald Press Co., 1950. 776 pp.
VALUES AND PERSONALITY—An Existential Psychology of Crisis. By Werner Wolff, Ph.D. New York: Grune and Stratton, Inc., 1950. 239 pp.
It is beginning to be a rare thing to find a newly published text on psychology that does not have 'personality' somewhere in its title. By contrast, and almost as conspicuous by its absence, is the once popular adjective 'abnormal'. The explanation for this may be found in the increasing effort to define normality or normal personality. In the past the study of personality derived chiefly from the retrospective analysis of clinical material, proceeding from the pathological to the normal, augmented by infrequent studies of pathology induced in the laboratory. Thus the clinical evidence largely outdistanced the laboratory and, perhaps in consequence, there appeared an ever-widening gulf between the clinician and the experimentalist. Current needs and practices lead the trend in a healthier direction of a major effort to bridge the gap between the laboratory and the clinic. Now the clamor is against the dogmatism