PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER AND CRIME. By W. Lindesay Neustatter, M.D. New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1957. 248 pp.

These books are written for the lay public by an English psychiatrist of wide experience. One volume runs through a common list of clinical labels—schizophrenia, the organic psychoses, and so on—and characterizes them with the aid of brief allusions to pertinent cases. The volume devoted to the murderer is organized upon a similar principle. Famous murder cases are chosen to show that the act can be committed by individuals who fall into practically all the clinical categories. The details of each murder are set forth as described in the press.

The laymen who read these books will have a concise guide to a mildly psychodynamic orientation in the field.