The Doctor and the Difficult Adult

? . . may be useful to (other) professional people whose work brings them into contact with problems of human thought and conductThe reviewer feels that it is one of the most practical and understandable books he has seen on the subject of psychotherapy. Not least of its values are the illustrative cases appended to each chapter. But the book's main virtue is its concrete guidance to the non-specialist. In these days when the psychiatric profession cannot, owing to its limited size, begin to cope with the vast numbers of emotional problems that beset people in all walks of life, and when prevention or early treatment on a modest scale is so important, Dr. Moodie's kind of exposition is essential. He never forgets Hippocrates' dictum, do the least harm, and between the amoral tenets of some therapists and the blindnesses of some moralists, he steers a wise and sane course of balanced wisdom and sage judgment. He is no more sparing in his criticism of ultra-" modern "