Many books and articles have been devoted to the devising of new tests, the improvement of old ones, and the relations of test findings with all sorts of extra-test behavior. But relatively little has been written about the psychological test report, which often seems to be the weakest link in the chain that connects the referring psychiatrist, the psychological tester, and the object of their joint concern, the patient. Yet all the work the psychologist does, the hours of testing, analyzing, integrating, and writing are useless, or even worse than useless, if the psychologist is not able to convey the essential significance of his findings in such a way that the referring psychiatrist can understand them, test their plausibility against his own findings, and make use of them.

In this brief volume, Walter Klopfer addresses the young psychologist in training and his clinical psychologist supervisor with the