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The new volume of The Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis is a reviewer's holiday and headache: a holiday because reading it is a rich ceremonial Thanksgiving dinner (with some turkey and the resulting slight discomfort of having overeaten); a headache because of the problem of how to review a volume of reviews.
Volume VI takes its place on the high level of the preceding volumes. It informs about psychoanalytic history, gives insight into the development of current research and contemporary trends in analytic thinking; it creates a skilful and readable miniature picture of psychoanalysis in the year 1955.
Sigmund Gabe opens as usual with an account of history. Leo Rangell summarizes essays on critique. Nathanial Ross, in his special, clear way, reviews theoretical studies, therapy, and child psychoanalysis. John Frosch reports on clinical studies with special emphasis on dreams and some sidelights on education. Renato Almansi and Mark Kanzer divide between them the great field of applied psychoanalysis (religion, mythology, folklore, sociology, and æthetics). Of special value is the harvest of book reports. Condensations are given of books by Colby, Eissler, Feuer, Greenacre, Hoffer, Munroe, Michaels, and Róheim.