The Reintegrative Process in a Psychoanalytic Treatment, Vol.  III of: The Integration of Behavior. By Thomas M. French, M.D., Chicago, Ill.:  The University of Chicago Press, 1958. Pp.  xii + 484. $10.00.

This is the third of a projected five-volume series by Dr. French, who has been for many years the Research Director at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. The entire work takes as its central thesis the alleged neglect in psychoanalytic theory and technique of the integrative and adaptive functions of the ego. To remedy this situation an ambitious and learned attempt is made to establish, and apply to clinical material, a complex and elaborate theoretical structure. It is based in part upon the learning and behavior theories of Hull, Tolman, and Thorndike, and upon the gestalt psychology of the late Kurt Lewin. Abandonment of much of the conceptual vocabulary and terminology of classical psychoanalysis is part of a fundamental revision and amplification of some central aspects of Freudian theory.

Volumes I and II establish the conceptual framework, and apply it to the dream process. The present book applies the theory to actual clinical material. It is largely devoted to an hour-by-hour presentation of 168 sessions of a single psychoanalytic case. The book may be read independently of the previous volumes since central aspects of the theory are reviewed.