'The So Called Good Hysteric' by Elizabeth Zetzel describes four groups of female patients who present hysterical characters or hysterical neuroses. Only the first group, the 'true hysteric', is a good analytic risk; the others offer problems of varying severity to analysis. Most of the 'good hysterics' fall into the poor risk group, tend to be depressive characters, and have defects in basic ego functions. P. C. Kuiper makes a plea for more exacting criteria in the selection of patients for analysis. He feels that too often the analyst chooses unsuitable patients and thereby becomes disillusioned with his work.