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employed. The patient was subjected to 'Analysis through Hypnosis', 'Analysis by the (word) association method', pulse tracings and the 'synthetizing' of dissociated experience.

In Part II we are told that the 'Diseases of the Subconscious' are losses and illusions of memory, the splitting of a personality, hysteria, psychasthenia (in Janet's sense), neurasthenia, psycho-epileptic attacks and 'Colored Hearing' : but surely these are disorders of consciousness, not of the subconscious. Assuming that Dr. Coriat means the 'uncon- scious' when he writes of the 'subconscious', the only states which might be regarded as 'diseases of the subconscious' would be re- pressed perversions; but we have failed to discover any reference either to repression or to the perversions in. Dr. Coriat's : 'Abnormal Psychology'. In short, the book is out of date.

W. H. B. Stoddart.

The Psychology of Everyday Life, By James Drever, Lecturer on Psychology in the University of Edinburgh. (Methuen and Co., London 1921. Pp. 164. Price 6s.) '

The aim of this volume is to translate the problems and results of psychology into terms intelligible to the layman, and the author has succeeded admirably in carrying out his aim. The book is carefully and interestingly written and can be warmly recommended as perhaps the best and soundest manual to be put into the hand of a beginner in psychology or of a worker in other fields who wishes to acquire some acquaintance with the subject-matter of psychology and its possible application to the problems of actual eyeryday life.

Readers of this Journal will naturally turn to the references on psycho-analysis. It is evident that the author's knowledge of this is relatively slight and derived only from reading, else he would have realised that psycho-analysis has much more to say about the other problems of psychology in its relation to life than would appear from perusal of this book. Still, Freud's views on repression, conflict, subl- imation, the imconscious, and the theory of dreams are approvingly described and the following passages are worth quoting. Referring to intrapsychical conflict, the author writes (p. 40) : "This ground has been very carefully worked over by Freud and his followers, and the psycho- logist, even while refusing to accept many of the Freudian theories and interpretations, may well acknowledge the debt psychology owes to Freud for the industry and perspicuity (sic) with which this obscure and yet highly important part of our complex nature has been ex- plored, and made to yield up facts of the utmost significance for the