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The title of this book is not likely to attract the attention of the psychoanalyst, a misfortune that I hope this review may prevent in some measure. For several of its chapters are significant contributions to psychoanalysis and several others are interesting and thought-provoking to anyone interested in psychoanalytic psychology and the scientific problems with which it must deal.
The book itself is an attempt to point toward a rapprochement between clinical psychology and general psychology. With the (hoped for) death of behaviorism as the dominant American ideological position in psychology, the editor sees the possibility of an integration between clinical psychology—implying a concern with the behavior, both internal and external, of whole persons with reliance upon such methods as naturalistic observation and field and case studies—and cognitive psychology, implying the study of man's symbolizing functions. The hoped for result would be a psychology not lacking in rigor but able to comprehend problems of human significance. In pursuit of this purpose, the book is divided into two sections, the first of which includes sharply critical evaluations of the behaviorist paradigm and ideology by Michael Scriven and Louis Breger, and a very interesting survey of the influence of psychoanalytic theory upon American psychology by David Shakow. Part II attempts to show how a cognitive approach to traditional clinical concerns would look. This