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Clinical studies in childhood psychoses: 25 years in collaborative treatment and research. The langley porter children's service
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is new methodologies and new orientations which are required rather than more traditional programs and more traditional counselors. Priorities need reordering and services need to be determined by more effective coneepts. To say all this is like a declaration for good and against sin--it is easier said than done. But here we are offered a working framework, a set of 10 components leading toward such a goal. This book should be useful for courses in counselor education at a basic level. Little or no formal knowledge of psychology is presupposed and the emphasis is praetical rather than theoretical. The style is clear and to the point.
SZUREK, S. A., & BERLIN, I. N. (Eds.). Clinical Studies in Childhood Psychoses: 25
Years in Collaborative Treatment and Research. The Langley Porter Children's Service. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1973, xix + 780 Pp. $20.00. Thirty-three papers by the editors and their associates reflect data gathered from over 250 cases treated on the children's service of the famed Langley Porter Institute in San Francisco. The various sections cover: Historical Background; Current Clinical
Issues; Clinical Research; Sexual Problems; Therapeutic Experiences with Children and Their Families. Tile Rimland checklist and other outcome prediction criteria are assessed. While readers of this Journal may question many of Bowlby's focal theses, it can not be denied that the long chapter on Attachment and Psychotic Detachment--specially written for the present volume--is probably the most extensive and authoritative explication of Bowlby's well-known work on attachment as related to clinical practice yet to appear.
ANDERSON, JOHN R., & BOWRER, GORDON H. Human Associative Memory, Washington, D. C. Winston & Sons, 1973, xiv + 524 Pp. $14.95. This is an outstanding volume in a highly specialized area. It proposes and explores in detail a new theory about human memory, about how a person encodes, retains, and retrieves information from memory. Particularly concerned with memory for sequential material, the setting is that of philosophical associationism, from Aristotle through the British empiricists to the present. Linguistics of the Noam Chomsky variety, "verbal learning," and the "organizational'" approach are seminal concepts. Equally pertinent is the work of such individuals as Minsky, McCarthy, Newell, and Simon, and recent ongoing research into mechanism and models of artificial intelligence. The book is far from easy reading, the style is at times less than elegant and the uninitiated will find the technical terminology all but incomprehensible. It is, nevertheless, an important volume for the specialist despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that the authors graciously write their own "Epitaph" in the form of a self-directed and thought-provoking critique!
HENRY, WILLIAM E., SIMS, JOHN H., & SPRAY, S. LEE. Public and Private Lives o/ Psychotherapists. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1973, vxi + 272 Pp. $12.50. This book is really a continuation of the authors' 1971 The Fifth Profession: Becoming a Psychotherapist. Apparently, regardless of mode of entry into the pro-
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is new methodologies and new orientations which are required rather than more traditional programs and more traditional counselors. Priorities need reordering and services need to be determined by more effective coneepts. To say all this is like a declaration for good and against sin--it is easier said than done. But here we are offered a working framework, a set of 10 components leading toward such a goal. This book should be useful for courses in counselor education at a basic level. Little or no formal knowledge of psychology is presupposed and the emphasis is praetical rather than theoretical. The style is clear and to the point.
SZUREK, S. A., & BERLIN, I. N. (Eds.). Clinical Studies in Childhood Psychoses: 25
Years in Collaborative Treatment and Research. The Langley Porter Children's Service. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1973, xix + 780 Pp. $20.00. Thirty-three papers by the editors and their associates reflect data gathered from over 250 cases treated on the children's service of the famed Langley Porter Institute in San Francisco. The various sections cover: Historical Background; Current Clinical
Issues; Clinical Research; Sexual Problems; Therapeutic Experiences with Children and Their Families. Tile Rimland checklist and other outcome prediction criteria are assessed. While readers of this Journal may question many of Bowlby's focal theses, it can not be denied that the long chapter on Attachment and Psychotic Detachment--specially written for the present volume--is probably the most extensive and authoritative explication of Bowlby's well-known work on attachment as related to clinical practice yet to appear.
ANDERSON, JOHN R., & BOWRER, GORDON H. Human Associative Memory, Washington, D. C. Winston & Sons, 1973, xiv + 524 Pp. $14.95. This is an outstanding volume in a highly specialized area. It proposes and explores in detail a new theory about human memory, about how a person encodes, retains, and retrieves information from memory. Particularly concerned with memory for sequential material, the setting is that of philosophical associationism, from Aristotle through the British empiricists to the present. Linguistics of the Noam Chomsky variety, "verbal learning," and the "organizational'" approach are seminal concepts. Equally pertinent is the work of such individuals as Minsky, McCarthy, Newell, and Simon, and recent ongoing research into mechanism and models of artificial intelligence. The book is far from easy reading, the style is at times less than elegant and the uninitiated will find the technical terminology all but incomprehensible. It is, nevertheless, an important volume for the specialist despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that the authors graciously write their own "Epitaph" in the form of a self-directed and thought-provoking critique!
HENRY, WILLIAM E., SIMS, JOHN H., & SPRAY, S. LEE. Public and Private Lives o/ Psychotherapists. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1973, vxi + 272 Pp. $12.50. This book is really a continuation of the authors' 1971 The Fifth Profession: Becoming a Psychotherapist. Apparently, regardless of mode of entry into the pro-