To prepare a psychiatric case-history to be of value is not an easy task. One calls to mind Freud's 150 page hysteria history as a sample in the technical field, and maybe G. B. Stern's recent novel, The Woman in the Hall, as an equally intriguing etching, vivid and forceful and free from psychiatric terminology, yet a psychiatric case-history.

Dr. Preu's contribution leans to the orthodox formal pattern and stems from his work with Prof. Kahn at Yale. It is a simplified outline of the more obvious essential facts from the purely objective descriptive standpoint. It says nothing concerning unconscious material, its symbolization or rationalization and as such is definitely dated as prefreudian. The psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrist will find little of essential value in it.