Expression of the Emotions in Man: Edited by Peter H. Knapp, M.D. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1963. 351 pp.

This volume, based upon a symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in December 1960, is first concerned,

in Darwinian tradition, with origins. The second group of papers considers the levels at which emotional phenomena can be specified clinically. The third group is a synthesis of the material. The volume is well organized, the papers well written.

An experiment with the associative anamnesis described by Dr. Felix Deutsch will capture the interest of the clinician. Interviews with sensory stimuli impinging on both patient and interviewer are studied and discussed by the various participants who arrive at widely divergent opinions. Study of the interview at the lexical and linguistic level yields a different order of information from that derived from kinesic or visceral levels. The conclusions arrived at by clinical observation are at variance with those from different disciplines, and the conclusions of the clinicians themselves differ. This reviewer is in accord with Dr. Colby, who says that the psychoanalyst will become more firmly convinced that the human being can be studied only as a person.