zations. Unfortunately, the Committee has been guilty of a good many such in the course of its work.

Two examples should suffice to indicate how fundamentally naive their whole approach is, despite the painstaking charts, the lengthy questionnaires and up-to-date use of IBM data-processing methods. First, does it not occur to the good doctors that their entire study is based exclusively upon subjects who came to them for treatment? They profess to find questionable the findings of Chang, Block and Hooker, without evaluating the implications of the fact that those researchers used non-clinical subjects. Yet, they naively presume to generalize concerning homosexuality from data so a-typical, and confidently expect serious consideration of their efforts.

Even more naive, a condition unhappily frequent among many of the research fraternity, is a virtually total unawareness of the need for crossdisciplinary checking of the most rigorous sort. Dr. Bieber and his associates blithely assume that they are qualified and competent to investigate homosexuality in individuals while betraying almost complete ignorance of basic principles of personality development well-known to any sociologist, or anthropologist. As did Freud, they tend to brush off as unimportant and incidental the role played by social factors (of which the family is merely a specific aspect) in every case of homosexuality.

The sincerity of purpose and the good intentions of the Bieber group are not questioned, but it cannot be left unsaid that each of them, from the evidence of this current book, is seriously lacking in that careful and critical approach to the field upon which we at ONE Institute insist. They would each of them benefit by submitting to the discipline of classwork at the Institute.

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Homosexuality by its very good manners and quiet persuasiveness may well deceive those who would at once see through the phantasies of a Bergler or of the facile phrasemaking of an Albert Ellis. It is to be hoped that this book's conclusions shall not be unquestioningly accepted by the general and the scientific public. Readers should be cautioned to be on guard as they read its pages. With such an attitude to guide them they well may find that it is not without some modest merits, while sparing themselves undue concern over its many and flagrant psychoanalytic myths.

W. Dorr Legg ONE Institute

MCCAFFERY by Charles Gorham, Dial Press, 1961, $3.95, 245 PP.

At first glance this is pretty heady stuff, but it turns out to be downright sleazy.

Vincent Joseph Michael McCaffery is an intelligent, good-looking boy, born and reared in one of New York City's blighted areas. As a small child he is enslaved by his own love for his mother and by her devotion to the church. He is fifteen when she dies during pregnancy and he is left with nothing to believe in and no one to love except his mother's sister, for whom he feels some slight affection only because she represents, in his mind, some slight vestige of his mother. He firmly believes that his father killed his mother by inducing her to accept him sexually. The fact that Vincent fortuitously witnessed the act which resulted in her preg nancy and overheard his mother's protests doesn't help. He blames the church for her death because it was the church which had taught his mother that she could neither refuse her husband his marital rights, nor, despite the fact that she had been warned that she must not have an-