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There is scientific adventure in this book …and intrigue; that of clinical puzzlements presented, the ingenuity of experiments devised to investigate and resolve the uncertainties, the excitement of results surfacing, and the gratification of thoughtful, sensitive follow-up discussion providing clarification and pointing up implications as well as new leads. This is, then, followed by a new round; and thus a momentum of progress sweeps us forward.
This is a book by psychologists, but not for psychologists alone. It is for the psychoanalyst, the behavioral therapist, and the personality theorist. It is by psychologists in the sense of the early definition, the Boulder Model ideology, of the psychologist as a. scientist-clinician. It is this self-definition that the psychologist forged during the hectic years of contending with psychiatry's exclusionary and limiting efforts toward the psychologist moving from his first role as a projective techniquer to expansion into equality and peership with psychiatrists in the roles of therapist and psychoanalyst. If the psychiatrist had his medical background, then the psychologist had his training as a scientist. But few works affirm the harmony of scientist and clinician so compellingly as this one.
The central achievement of the work reported in this book, a stupendous achievement, is the bridging of the gulf—and the demonstration that