This 1949 annual review maintains its status as one of the better review books available. Primarily directed at an overall evaluation of the field this volume puts more emphasis on basic sciences, neurology and neuro-surgery than on psychiatry. Psychoanalytic orientation is reported throughout and a section by Richard L. Frank is devoted to a survey of psychoanalytic method. This chapter includes discussions of the work of the committees of the American Psychoanalytic Association, problems of therapy, especially the newer modifications, maturity, training situations, children's problems and other odds and ends. As usual, this chapter as well as the whole book merely serves generally to collect the literature and present a very short summary of the major contributions.

Primarily the volume serves as a locus from which to select further information and as such is highly successful.