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'To bury …, not to praise' is the intent of this review. Credit for the spadework must go to the reviewer of Volume VIII.1 In noting the technical character of that volume, he observed that the editor had deviated markedly from his original purpose to provide a 'Reader's Digest' for nonanalysts. The present volume is no different. For
whom then is The Yearbook issued?
Can we not assume that those sufficiently interested in psychoanalysis to wish to be better informed will turn to those well-known psychoanalytic publications from which these excellent papers are derived? Accessibility is no problem since this is an age of relative ease in the physical communication of scientific matter. Can we not further assume that those attracted to such a volume as this are interested in reading some particular paper, and that they are therefore likely to seek that paper in a periodical index?
The desirability and value of communicating to other sciences the contributions made annually by psychoanalysis is not questioned. I do doubt that The Yearbook as now constituted satisfactorily fills this need. An annual on the order of Lorand's Psychoanalysis Today more nearly meets the intent of The Yearbook, but the editing of even that appears to be a Herculean task.