BOOK REVIEWS 595

Prognostische Diagnose der endogenen Psychosen, by K. LEONHARD AND S. VON TROSTOEE, 132 pages, Fischer, Jena, 1964, DM 10.80.

Dissatisfaction, practical, theoretical and thera- peutic, with Bleuler's concept of schizophrenia as a disease is mounting. This little monograph may be taken as further expression of it. Prof. Leonhard and his colleague show that if the old dementia praecox connotation is retained, then 5 0 ~ or so of schizophrenics who recover either give the lie to the present classificatory framework or force the conclusion that it must be considerably

modified, in particular to allow for a varied group of patients who seem to exhibit a schizo- phreniform picture but who do not deteriorate in the standard way set down by Kraepelin. Their course rather runs that of a phasic or cycloid illness similar to what according to the old school one expected of that opposite group of so-called endogenous psychoses, the manic- depressive variety. Its characteristics are sketched in a series of clinical pictures, among which ' the psychoses of motility', as the authors call them, stand out.

RICHARD HUNTER

Psychiatric Care, by J. RUESCH, C. M. BRODSKY AND A. FISCHER, 238 pages, Grune and Stratton, New York, 1964, $ 8.75.

As its subtitle Psychiatry simplified for Thera- peutic Action indicates this is a practical vade me- cure presenting psychiatry stripped of its dissen- sions and complexities, of its unknowns and its

frills. The emphasis is on what to do and how to do it and there is a good deal of practical information not usually found in psychiatric texts. The book should be useful for examinees as well as the psychiatric practitioner.

RICHARD HUNTER

Principles of Cerebral Localization and Organi- zation, by G. SCHALTENBRAND AND C. N. WOOLSEY (EDITORS), 164 pages, Univ. of Wis- consin Press, Madison, Wise., 1964, $ 7.50, approx. £ 2.5.0.

This book is a record of the proceedings of a symposium held in Lisbon in October 1960. The problems of cerebral localization and organi- zation are approached from different angles. There are papers on anatomical studies and also upon electrical stimulation studies including the use of evoked potentials. Work on cortical interrelations and the history of aphasia are reviewed. An all-embracing paper describes the clinical experience in a large number of patients and correlates symptoms and signs of cortical dysfunction with electro-encephalographic find-

ings. A paper describes experimental work on the pattern of propagation of the epileptic discharge in the macaque monkey. A further chapter is devoted to a study of cerebrovascular lesions from the clinical, arteriographic and encephalographic points of view in t2 patients. There is also a chapter on nervous integration after hemispherectomy in man, describing per- sonal experience in 10 selected patients. Each chapter is followed by a discussion and a list of references.

This book brings together the personal experience of workers in many fields, anatomical, clinical, neurosurgical, encephalographic and experimental, all pertaining to the central theme of cerebral localization.

K. J. ZILKHA

J. neurol. Sci. (1965) 2:592-595