Symonds provides a very good survey of the literature on ego psychology in this book. Many of the contributions reported come from clinical psychology, particularly those which refer to that portion of the ego which is designated as the self. There are two hundred and eleven references in the bibliography.

Symonds does not explain why he feels it is necessary to differentiate the ego from the self and apparently assumes that it is the self which requires more careful consideration than it is generally given in psychoanalytic literature. There is little in the text which indicates that this differentiation is possible. The self is described as 'the subjective self as it is conceived and valued by the individual himself'. The fact that the word 'self' has to be used twice in the