Normal and Abnormal Psychology

not indicate the very elementary nature of this book. This very remarkable book endeavours to cover, in 94 not very closely printed pages, the whole of academic psychology, the views of the principal schools of psychopathology, symptom formation, psychosomatic medicine, the principles of the central nervous system and applied psychology. Whilst the success with which this aim has been achieved reflects great credit on the author, it serves to emphasize that the book is meant only for the very elementary student of the subject. On the whole, the balance between what is put in the book and what is left out is well maintained, but the necessity for brevity and the nature of the audience for whom the book is intended means that certain statements must be closely scrutinized if they are not to mislead. Although the more advanced student reading this book would have no difficulty in appreciating the author's meaning and intention, there are passages which might confuse the elementary student for whom they are intended. In particular, the author's attempt to give the view-points of so many different schools without coming down very strongly in favour of any one of them, must leave the elementary student somewhat confused as to what line to follow. This is more than ever noticeable since only the most superficial comparison between the various schools of thought is possible in such a brief book. Some confusion, too, is likely to arise over the