328 zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA BOOK REVIEWS This collectton of 27 chapters by diverse hands presents a range of innovative approaches to conceptualizmg and implementing changes in community mental health through systematic mterventions applied at various levels of social life. The book is proposed for use either as a textbook for students or as a resource book for helpmg professionals. whether researchers. administrators, educators or climcians. The material is divided into 8 sections. Part I contams three chapters on the concepts, values and knowledge bases of behavioural ecoiogy; part 2 has another three on commumty alternatives to institutionalization; part 3, four chapters on consultation; part 4. four on prevention: part 5. four on social support networks; part 6. five on evaluation and commumty accountability; part 7. three on the implications of these developments for education and training of professionals and paraprofessionals; and finally. part S contams a one-chapter epilogue on the future. followed by a useful appendix concerning resources in community mental health and behavioural ecology. Limitations of space preclude detailed coverage of the wealth of information and opinion to be found m the collection. but a few high points may be mentioned briefly. They include the thought-provoking study by Garber and Heber ot prevention of cultural-famtlial mental retardation in disadvantaged inner-city black Infants of mothers with low lQs: McAlister’s review of possible roles for the media in community-wide prevention programmes: the chapter by Schure. Slotnick and Jeger on collaboration between professionals and self-help groups: Lehmann’s chapter on naturally-occurring social support groups mentioned above: Tornatzky’s IO-year retrospective account of a postg,raduate programme for training professionals in social systems intervention; Durlak’s chapter on training of paraprofessionals: and Slotnick and Jeger’s chapter on the community resources centres of the future. No doubt another reviewer would select differently: there is plenty of material to choose from. Although there are still many questions to which behavioural ecologists have yet to find answers, the record of findings and ideas to date is impressive and their keen awareness of ethical dilemmas at all levels of community intervention is reassuring. As an interim report on a rapidly expanding field. the book can be highly recommended, zyxwvutsrqponmlkjih VICKY RIPPERE E. M. THORNTON: zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA Freud and Cocaine-The Freudian Fallac_v. Blond & Briggs, London (1983). 340 pages This is a very learned, academically-acceptable book which makes the. at first sight. astonishing suggestion that Freud‘s methods of theorizing, his messianistic behaviour and his whole change of lifestyle were all produced by his becoming addicted to cocaine, a drug with which he experimented in his youth. but which he then took up more seriously in later life. Initially, the theory may sound absurd and contrived, but the author, who is an experienced historian of science. produces a great deal of evidence. much direct, but also much of it indirect. to support this view. Although at first not very receptive, the reviewer soon found the argument irresistible; the author brings out very clearly the similarities between Freud’s very odd and unusual behaviour. which is even admitted by friendly historians like Jones. and the typical reactions of cocaine addicts to the drug. The book is not only concerned with Freud’s drug addiction: it examines in detail many historical events in hts personal life and the development of his theories. always by giving close attention to htstorical sources. and succeeds m throwing a great deal of new light on many events which readers of Jones’s biography, or that of Schur. might hnd it difficult to understand. or might not have even have encountered at all. due to the rich process of suppression 07 uncomfortable data so noticeable m the history of the psychoanalytic movement. Some of the ideas presented by Thornton are distinctly novel and unusual, such as the suggestion that Freud and Charcot never dealt with hysterics at all. but rather with eptlepttcs. Whatever the truth of these matters. the book IS certamly one which should be read by anyone interested in Freud and the htstory of the psychoanalytic movement. Unfortunately, the Freud family succeeded in making it impossible for any honest critic to read the correspondence between Freud and Fliess which would throw a flood of light on the issues raised m this book. particularly Freud’s addiction to cocaine. The fact that such an embargo was put on this correspondence suggests that there was something to hide, and Freud’s family has done a great deal of harm to his reputation by insisting on this form of censorship which goes counter to all scientific integrity. It is to be hoped that the publication of this book will persuade the family to release the correspondence, and make it posstble in this way for honest critics to examine in detail the original data which alone can finally settle these and many other questions. H. J. EYSENCK V. F. GU~DANO and G. LOTTI: Cognitive Processes md Emorionul Duordrrs--A Strucrurul Approach to Psychotherapy. Gutlford. New York (1983). 347 pages. S24.50. Imagine two scientists attempting to discover the causes of certain types of behavior. thinking patterns and emotional responses. Imagine further that one of these scientists is relatively naive in his scientific manner. and while he has studied countless behavioral interchanges over his lifetime, had numerous discussions with colleagues to debate and confirm his causal theories. he has no formal training in the process of scientific inquiry. Thts tirst scientist. as a consequence. tends to apply rules for understanding in a relatively reflexive manner. and certain methods of inquiry are more common. The other scientist, by contrast. has been formally educated both in the general nature of scientific inquiry and the specific methods available for such inquiry. He purposefully applies methods to problems and attempts to apply suhicient methods to solve the problem at hand. Of course. the first of these ‘scientists’ IS the patient. who not only has been unable to establish a flexible. adaptive. ‘healthy’ set of rules about behavior. thought and emotion (as evidenced by the emotional disorder