Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Nurses, Patients and Social Systems. Edited by J. M. Weiss. The College Environment. By Alexander W. Astin. Systems of Organization: the Control of Task and Sentient Boundaries. By E. J. Miller and A. K. Rice. Creativity and Performance in Industrial Organization. By Andrew Crosby. Alcohol Problems: a Report to the Nation. Prepared by Thomas F. A. Plaut for the Co‐operative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism. Interpersonal Perception: a Theory and a Method of Research. By R. D. Laing, H. Phillipson and A. R. Lee. Thinking without Language: Psychological Implications of Deafness. By Hans G. Furth. Children of Sick Parents: an Environmental and Psychiatric Study. By Michael Rutter. Adoption Assessments: a Team Approach Based on Research and Related to the Basic Needs of the Child. By Alexina M. McWhinnie. The History of Psychiatry. By F. Alexander and S. Selesnick. Experiential Foundations of Rorschach's Test. By Ernest G. Schachtel. The Scientific Study of Abnormal Behaviour. By James Inglis. The Experimental Investigation of Meaning: a Review of the Literature. By Marjorie B. Creelman. Absent: School Refusal as an Expression of Disturbed Family Relationships. By Max B. Clyne. The Genesis of Language. Edited by F. Smith and G. A. Miller. Psychopathology. By Arnold H. Buss. Syndromes of Psychosis. By M. Lorr, C. J. Klett and D. M. McNair. Patterns of Meaning in Psychiatric Patients. By I. M. Marks. Twins: a Study of Heredity and Environment. By H. H. Newman, F. W. Freeman and K. J. Holzinger. Twin Relations. By Helen L. Koch. Deviant Children Grown Up. By Lee N. Robins.