International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences: Edited by David Sills and others. New York: Macmillan-Free Press, 1968. 17 vols., 9000 pp.

Fifteen years of planning, consultation, research, and fund-raising, and the work of 2000 contributors from the United States and thirty other countries, have gone into the publication of the International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. An evaluation of such an extensive work in many disciplines of the social and 'behavioral' sciences can be done only on the basis of the limited scope and experience relevant to the specialized training and subject of the reviewer's library. This review is based on approximately ten months of library usage. To do justice to this monumental work, attempts have been made to consult the readers and researchers using the library, and librarians in varied scientific disciplines.

The seventeen volumes (the last being the index) consists of 9000 double-columned pages and 1,716 signed articles. The topical articles deal mainly with concepts, theories, and methods in ten fields of study: anthropology, economics, geography, history, law, political science, psychiatry, psychology, sociology, and statistics. Psychiatry includes theories and descriptions of principal mental disorders, methods of diagnosis and treatment. Psychoanalysis has no separate topical article listing, nor is it included in the editor's text explaining psychiatry. However, in the section of the index volume titled 'Classification of Articles', which provides the reader with a review of the different fields covered in the Encyclopedia, psychoanalysis is listed under Psychiatry with the following subclassifications: Classical Theory, Ego Psychology, Therapeutic Methods, and Experimental Studies. In the subject index, psychoanalysis (italicized) is listed as a subheading under psychiatry, and has two columns of subdivisions listing symptoms, fields, or topics in connection with psychoanalysis, key words, subjects connected with psychoanalytic therapy, and the names of psychoanalysts covered in the biographies. The major psychoanalytic articles are written by author