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Although there have been several recent publications on the subject,1 the study of thinking is a neglected field of psychology. Thus, any contribution to the field is welcome.
Dr. Vinacke's is an introductory volume. It surveys and mentions, rather than explores or integrates. Its main merit is that it touches on a broad range of sources which are potential contributors to a psychology of thinking, and does so without bias. Its main weakness is that it does not enter or exploit any of these sources actually (the pathology of thinking is deliberately avoided).
The treatment of psychoanalytic contributions is sympathetic, though reserved. The emphasis is more that psychoanalysis has a contribution to make, than on what this contribution is. But this is more or less the vein in which Vinacke treats the other contributions to his subject.
The reader will find in this volume ample information where to turn to study about thinking, but very little information about the relative merits of these sources. At times the use of secondary sources and lack of information about primary ones is disconcerting.