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Books received are acknowledged and given a brief description in this section. Selections serving a variety of interests will be made from these for a more extensive review, as far as space will allow.
, and : Psychoanalysis As Science. [Sanford, California, Sanford University Press: Pp. 174-1952 $4.25.]
This book presents the Hixon Lectures on the scientific status of psychoanalysis given at the California Institute of Technology. It is concerned with the question as to whether psychoanalysis is a scientific discipline as such and whether its methods and theories are scientifically valid.
Dr. Hilgard discusses the experimental approaches to psychoanalytic or psychodynamic concepts and theories, leaving one with the impression that very little of a fundamental nature can be obtained at present, in this field by the usual classical scientific procedures.
Dr. Pumpian-Mindlin gives a valuable historical review of psychoanalysis in terms of its developmental foci and rightly indicates that psychoanalysis is not precise in the sense that we have come to consider the basic sciences.
Dr. Kubie, who has had a great deal of experience in this field, points out the problems,