A very valuable book for the library of the psychiatrist. Prof. Kraepelin has brought psychiatry to its highest point at the descriptive level and this book contains his observations as incorporated in the last edition of his monumental work. The fact that he dismisses the psychoanalytic attack upon the problem with scanty recognition and with an obvious lack of understanding of its theories and what it has accomplished in no way negatives the value of the material which he has brought together. The observations have been carefully made and accurately recorded and may therefore serve as material for interpretation in accordance with the psychoanalytic method or any other hypotheses. Such splendid collections of data are always of scientific value.

White