The Psychoanalytic Forum, Vol. III: Edited by John A. Lindon, M.D. New York: Science House, Inc., 1969. 348 pp.

The present volume continues the already much applauded policy of publishing original contributions followed by their discussion, covering a broad range of topics in current psychoanalytic thought and practice. The discussants, nonanalysts as well as analysts, seem to have been carefully chosen with an eye toward their anticipated diversity of opinion. The effort to achieve an atmosphere of lively and stimulating exchange with the author, who is given an opportunity for a concluding response, is unquestionably successful. The reviewer's experience of reading the volume straight through was particularly rewarding, as much for the varied, uneven, but occasionally most illuminating discussion as for the papers themselves. The contents include: an edited version of a recent panel discussion on the family; clinical studies on various topics including migraine, the use of drugs, the erotized transference; an inquiry into the 'two cultures' dilemma; a review of the work on the psychoanalysis of schizophrenia; a contribution to the problems of psychoanalytic education; and a study of the emotional reactions of psychiatrists when confronting survivors of persecution. The Forum, because of its particular editorial policy and format, is a most worth-while additional voice in the psychoanalytic community, and should receive the support and continued attention of all psychoanalysts.