This book attracts our attention because, as the publishers inform us, the author of it is a physician, a priest, a practicing psychiatrist, and medical historian. The material of the book is made up of the 1932 Hale lectures delivered at the Western Theological Seminary, in Evanston.

The book is written for parish priests, seminarians, ministers, social workers, and any other persons without any medical knowledge whose work brings them in touch with mental illness and maladjustment of their fellowmen. “The psychiatrists seldom see a mental patient until the mental difficulty has developed to such a degree that it can no longer be