This is an outstanding work in the field of psychiatry and should be widely read by all who are interested in this branch of medicine. It is a difficult work to review because it discusses a great multitude of details, but, on the other hand, these discussions are rich in suggestions and observations which touch all manner of Important psychiatric problems.

The question of the postural model of the body has received very little attention in psychiatry, in fact Dr. Schilder has perhaps written as much or more on the subject than any other single author. With his well known dynamic predilections he discusses this important feature of our psychological lives, not as a static entity but more as one would discuss a growing, developing organism, built up out of this and that material, growing, expanding and changing, in fact in a constant state of flux in response to the everlasting changing conditions under which we live and