Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology. Philip S. Holzman. New York:  McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970.  xvi+204 pp.

This book is an excellent, readable, thoughtfully constructed text designed to introduce the undergraduate and graduate student, the medical student and possibly the beginning psychoanalytic student, to the data that form the basis of psychoanalysis. It was written as a text to supplement class discussions and other texts on psychoanalysis. Holzmen gives a clear historical presentation of the development of Freud's psychoanalytic ideas. He further describes the evolution and revisions of those theories in the context of the scientific, clinical, theoretical, and philosophical ideas that preceded and were contemporary with Freud's. By design the author has not discussed Freud's papers on treatment and on social and anthropological observations. Each chapter is briefly summarized, and the last chapter is a summary of the entire text. The book also contains an excellent and comprehensible glossary of psychoanalytic terminology and a list of references.

A chapter is devoted to the contributions of contemporary theorists: the work of Anna Freud on motives for defense, child analysis, and the developmental profile; the work of Heinz Hartmann on adaptation, concepts of reality, and secondary autonomy; and the work of Erik Erikson with his epigenetic psychosexual and psychosocial formulations.

It is a text that students will find an extremely valuable addition to their libraries and a help in understanding Freud's six metapsychological points of view and the place of each in psychoanalysis.