What a change has taken place in textbooks of psychology in the past forty years! Academic psychology was then presented to college students in texts like Knight Dunlap's Elements of Scientific Psychology, essentially an antipsychoanalytic monograph. The general rejection of freudian theory made the study of personality development a sterile pursuit. A student had to go to Freud if he were interested in a psychopathology that had any semblance of theoretical cogency and consistency. This kind of fragmentation, still existent in some universities where the academic experimental antipsychoanalytic departments are at loggerheads with the psychodynamically oriented clinical psychological divisions, is certainly not evident in most modern texts.

Dr. Sarnoff's book, a systematic presentation of psychoanalytic