Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Science. An Annual of Integrative and Interdisciplinary Studies. Volume II, 1973: Edited by Benjamin B. Rubinstein. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.; London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1973. 401 pp.

There is no need to take issue with the quality of the individual articles in this second annual volume of Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Science; they are serious, sober, of an unequivocally high level, varying only from good through excellent to superb. Regarding the functions of this Annual, announced in its subtitle, however,

it seems to this reviewer that it more nearly accomplishes its integrative than its interdisciplinary intentions. In the Introduction to Volume I, the Editors (Holt and Peterfreund)1 spelled out their view that 'psychoanalysis needs stimulating ideas from other sciences, such as psychology, ethology, genetics, neurophysiology, psychiatry, psychopharmacology, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, history, sociology and the information and systems sciences'. And indeed in that first volume there were sections on psycholinguistics and psychohistorical and developmental issues, among others; and in Volume II there are sections on philosophy, information theory, development (again), and more. Another measure of the diversity of material in this collection can be seen in the fact that less than ten per cent of the eight hundred fifty-three bibliographic entries cited are from the works of Freud (and among those seventy-seven entries there has been no attempt to eliminate the considerable duplication). Clearly there is an attempt, quite well executed when one looks at the high level of the individual articles, to integrate 'stimulating ideas from other sciences' into a first-rate source book for those readers interested in psychoanalysis and science.

But who will these readers be? Psychoanalysts, to be sure, but to what extent will these erudite, sophisticated, and often difficult essays and articles be disseminated to, and read