The author of this very interesting volume is a psychotherapist at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D. C, and professor of psychiatry, School of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D. C.

Dr. Karpman has had a truly extensive experience in psychiatry and criminology at St. Elizabeths Hospital. For some years he has been preparing very intensive life histories of insane and criminal patients. He has been a broad-minded and keen-minded student of psychogenesis in the etiology of mental disorders and criminal behavior. He has been urged by a group of social scientists to publish some of his case studies. In this first volume he presents five such splendid case studies.

In order to appreciate the scope of this book, it should be known that he plan of the work is such that each case study consists of the following