This volume contains Sullivan's writings on social science from 1934 until the time of his death in 1949. In seventeen papers on diverse topics, he is generally concerned with his attempt to find common ground between social science (which for him was mainly social psychology or sociology) and psychiatry (which for him was the study of interpersonal relations). Helen Swick Perry has written the introduction and commentaries which are clear but completely uncritical.

Sullivan did succeed in bringing about a fusion of psychiatry and social science—at the expense of psychiatry and with the use of a highly simplified set of propositions and hypotheses from social science. I say at the expense of psychiatry, since Sullivan's statements