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The authors were led to an attempt to quantify hostility by their observation that hypertensives have a higher than normal degree of hostility. A scale for rating the hostility in a manifest dream was devised and comparison made between hypertensives and normals. The results confirmed the clinical impression. In discussing the conceptual approach the authors ask 'what is measured?. They compare it to a microscope which focuses on a certain level of tissues
under the lens. They feel that such a method 'should prove a useful adjunct to psychoanalytic science and therapy'.