The Science of Dreams. By Edwin Diamond. New York:  Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1962. Pp.  264. $4.50.: Eso Synthesis in Dreams. By Richard M. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.:  Schenkman Publishing Co., Inc., 1962. Pp.  100. $2.45. ($4.50 cloth) The Clinical Use of Dreams. By Waiter Bonime, M.D. Foreword by Montague Ullman, M.D. New York:  Basic Books, Inc., 1962. Pp.  xxiii + 343. $8.50. New Approaches to Dream Interpretation. By Nandor Fodor. New York:  Citadel Press, 1962. Pp.  xiii + 368. $1.95.

Dreams give these books a common denominator, but in their perspectives, emphases and purposes they cover a broad scale. The first work, written in non-technical language, is a science reporter's overview of recent investigations of dreams in the experimental laboratories. The second book, couched in the terminology of the research psychologist, creatively explores one line of theory and its application. In the third and fourth books, diverse theoretical and clinical approaches are described by writers who focus on dream material as one aspect of psychoanalytic therapy.

Edwin Diamond's report on some “exciting research” conveys information on the “new discoveries about dreams, the brain, and behavior; on the new science of dreams that has evolved from them; and on the deeper illuminations of the soul that these investigations have provided.”

The stated purpose of the monograph by Professor Richard M. Jones of Brandeis University is to further the use of dreams as research material in “growth” psychology. He proposes a method of analyzing the manifest dream which he believes would be “as sensitive to the normality of dreams as is the free-association-latent content method to pathology in dreams.”

Walter Bonime's book was written “to present, in an organized form, working hypotheses and derivative techniques for the utilization of dream data.” The work is referred to as a practical handbook for analyst and patient.

The essays in the new paperback edition of Nandor Fodor's book, first published in 1951, were assembled from various psychoanalytic and psychiatric journals. In a flowing, narrative style he communicates to the general reader as well as the professional “recent findings in the analysis of dreams and various fantasies and nightmares, including dreams of sexual aberrations, frustrations, dreams of good and bad fortune.”

The student and practitioner who is not conversant with the latest experiments in the communication of dreams and the physiological and psychologi