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This index of concepts, the result of twenty-nine years of work on the editor's part, began as a cross index of Freud's ideas, to which Dr. Hart gradually added those of other prominent psychoanalytic writers, especially the 'early pioneers'. Its listings are based on an analysis of some 300 psychoanalytic books and 3,000 articles taken, in most part, from the chief analytic journals, i.e., The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, The Psychoanalytic Review, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.
It must be kept in mind that these five volumes cover only psychoanalytic technique and training although, as Dr. Hart remarks, theory is not completely excluded. This work represents just one of twenty-eight loose-leaf books the editor has compiled over the years. He apologizes for the dearth of material on child analysis but explains that another index on this subject alone, and of the same size as the present one, could probably be compiled from his manuscript loose-leaf index. This task he leaves to the younger generation.
For the sake of efficiency and economy, Dr. Hart has limited himself to 330 subject headings. There is, however, a convenient Subject Heading Reference List which refers the user from subjects not included to related terms. This means that many varied concepts often have to be subsumed under one rather broad term: for example, 'free association' and 'cognition' are both indexed under 'thinking'; and 'object relations' and 'transitional object' under 'love'. While such lack of specificity may be a drawback for some users, there is an important and useful feature in the structure of the index: a chronological arrangement of related ideas under a particular subject. In this way the development of a certain concept can be studied by the researcher.
The chief value of this index, in the opinion of the reviewer, lies in its coördination of ideas. This is a uniq