For a long time there has been an urgent need for a dictionary of modern psychiatric and psychoanalytic terms, and the appearance of this small publication, consisting of some 2,000 definitions, is most welcome. It is a handy, small compendium for college students, social workers, physicians and others who find themselves puzzled by the divergent and often contradictory terms used in the new schools of psychology. To compile a dictionary of any sort is a most difficult task, requiring much time, patience, and hard labor, and Dr. English should be congratulated on his first attempt to supply a compendium of this nature for which we have waited so long. It is far from being a complete and satisfactory volume, but we trust that from this small nucleus the author will evolve bigger and better editions that will be in keeping with the rapid growth of this most important science in all of its newer developments.

Barbour