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Instinct in Man in the Light of Recent Work in Comparative Psychology By Dr. Ronald Fletcher. Pp. 248. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1957.) 40s. net.

THE title of this work might lead one to think that it deals with a branch of psychology. In point of fact, however, it is an attempt to define a science of which psychology as we now know it would be a branch. The other branches would include physiology, sociology, and indeed all the studies with the human organism and its activities. Dr. Angyal suggests that the time has come for a radical reconstruction of this group of sciences, not one of which can deal adequately with its subject-matter so long as it remains in comparative isolation from the others. Foundations for a Science of Personality By Dr. Andras Angyal. Pp. xii + 398. (New York: The Commonwealth Fund; London: Oxford University Press, 1941.) 13s. 6d. net.