These books on psychiatry are included here for the benefit of non-medical psychotherapists who might wish to have a reference book, and because they are part-written by psychoanalysts. The first has a more specialised function and performs this task well. For the non-medical reader there are useful notes on the symptoms and signs of organic brain disease, actions and side-effects of psychotropic drugs, and descriptive psychopathology.

The second book is a major general textbook which replaces the popular UCH Handbook of Psychiatry. The emphasis throughout is on an integration of descriptive, psychological and social aspects of psychiatry, and it manages to achieve a remarkable consistency in this endeavour, given that it is a multi-author textbook. The integrated approach is introduced by an opening chapter on the history of psychiatry, followed by an excellent contribution in which the late Heinz Wolff puts