The Priest and the Sick in Mind

The author of this book?her first to be translated?is a Dutch psychiatrist. She has set out to relate her clinical experience to a framework of the psychology of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, and to redress the balance of Freud's studies on sick people by an appeal to closer observation of those who are well. A detailed study of this, in her other works (to be translated) will be awaited with interest, but this present book consists more of advice for the priest in his attempts to help psychiatric patients, notably psychopathic personalities and neurotics; her advice is practical, wise and sincere and the book is one which can be read with advantage by clergy and ministers of all denominations. R. F. Tredoolp.