The author is both a professor of law and professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan. Of the eleven chapters only the last deals directly with mental illness and the law. However, the first ten chapters include well written and meaningfully arranged essays dealing with developmental psychology, clinical psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and, fittingly, clinical law. These essays, referred to as 'problems', are offered at the end of chapters, affording the reader ample opportunity to examine a particular problem in the very shadow of the technical atmosphere of the particular chapter.

The book opens with an attempt to educate the student of law in the ways of human behavior. The author underscores the fact