The Chewing Approach in Speech and Voice Therapy: Edited by Deso A. Weiss, M. D. and Helen H. Beebe. Basel and New York: S. Karger, (Undated). 118 pp.

This is a book by a distinctive group of voice and speech therapists who are the pupils and followers of Emil Froeschels. It should be of interest to analysts and psychiatrists because it deals with problems not infrequently observed by them.

The 'chewing method' of treating various functional and organic speech and voice disorders was discovered by Froeschels, and is characterized as 'mainly psychological'. The patient is taught to phonate while making vigorous eating and chewing motions. He may first chew some food, or merely make the motions of chewing; then he interpolates articulated sounds and combines them with vigorous chewing motions. Thereafter, he is indoctrinated in the theory that the physiological pattern of chewing is the anlage of and identical with the production of voice and speech; hence, to regard the former as the model for the latter. Psychotherapy is mentioned only as adjunctive or catalytic, but its ways and means are not stated.

The method is founded on varied observations that purport this identity, such as, that one can eat and speak at the same time; that certain primitive tribes chew aloud, from which it is deduced that human speech began in voiced chewing; that there is one brain center for speaking and eating, corroborated by brain pathology in