Abstract

DROME.: A REVIEW Edited by LeopoldBenedict, M.D. 1958. $14.75.)Bellak,(Newand Paul K. Logos Press, This bookSyirM.D., York: schizo-and our wellinterpenetration.conceptual as absenceframework of uniformof degreesand andnosology, reliableas toolsun-of illnessreferences-ofprovement,as majorph.renia-approximately4,000the period 1946-1956 and is intended as a companion piece to Bellak’s Dementia Praecox which covered the years 1936-1946. The editors were assisted in this enormous task by a group of distinguished colleagues contributing chapters in the areas of their special interest and competence, and the principal editor himself contributed 3 chapters. He states in his foreword that the book is not intended to be particularly critical but rather to place the available data before the reader leaving selective judgement to the latter. The book has many merits. First, it should be of great value as a type of index and source of individual references. The coverage in most areas is very comprehensive. A further value is the provision of perspective in breadth and through time of the myriad aspects of cause, manifestations and treatment of schizophrenia which have been observed and reported upon by thousands of investigators. Such a perspective, besides bringing a welcome measure of order and coherency to a field of scientific literature which sometimes verges on