Books giving account of psychotherapy of psychoses are in vogue. However, they are very important because recent developments in psychotherapy are in many ways generated by studies of the preoedipal area. At the same time, general psychiatry has noted the necessity of psychotherapy in the field of psychoses on account of the findings of side-effects and the limitation of the effects of physical treatment. In this respect, psychotherapy is also needed today by general psychiatry in the area of psychoses.

In this book, Haugsgjerd gives an essential contribution to the discussion of psychoses. He has written the book during his work at the Gaustad psychiatric institution in Oslo. It has been written over a period of several years. It is natural that this book is Norwegian, since in Norway there is a