From the clinical-pedagogic intent and survey nature of these nine lectures to the Brooklyn Psychiatric Society it is assumed that the reader will be the psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrist seeking further clarity and insight.

The chief lectures by Sandor Lorand on basic concepts of therapy suffer from the failure of the editors to recognize the validity of the dictum: 'the said, when read, is dead'. The literal transcription from tape leads in print to a lack of organization, wandering syntax, and the discursiveness and ambiguities that are inevitable in informal discourse. The lecturer's wealth of experience and technical competence, however, can with patience be retrieved. His psychotherapy is focused on the ego and his method an interactional-manipulative one. Excellent observations and specific advice regarding the gauging and handling of resistance, regression, and transference can be found among a profusion of not too useful generalizations and probably inescapable oversimplification of theoretical issues. The latter