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(almost 250 references), and has then proceeded to analyze these papers in comparison with each other and with his own results. As did Dr. Benjamin, he deals in passing with the TV (though less completely) and makes just as clear a distinction between TV and TS. Both also agree in rejecting the behaviorist psychological "explanations" which have confused the world for so long, and explicitly favoring a mixture of organic and environmental causes. Both also pre-

sent the case histories of many TS patients.

His approach is very much that of a dispassion- ate scientist, and the reader will do well to arm herself with a medical dictionary and a small text on statistical analysis before tackling this one. She had also better plan on making her own index, as he has not provided one nor even cross-references when the same subject is discussed on different pages. Despite these minor difficulties, the reader should be able to get the message without excessive use of asprin. Recommended to all, and especially to the "quasi-TS" who is trying to make up her mind.

Paul

CHRISTINE JORGENSEN, A Personal Autobiography. S Erickson, Inc., New York, 332 pages + 16 photo- pages; $6.95 (9/15/67).

This is certainly the longest-awaited book in the TS field, written nearly fifteen years after the events which not only shook the TV world, but pushed the Korean War, the first H-bomb and the death of George V right off the front page. (All the world except me; I had renounced TV "forever" just a month before, and couldn't care less about those headlines!) It is the first official story since her account in The American Weekly of February and March 1953; natur- ally, it represents a much more mature viewpoint on the subject than that of others who have rushed into print in the interim. Hopefully, it is not too full of those "selective lapses of memory" noted by Wolinder, Benjamin and others as characteristic of the TS. If not, it is probably unique since every other such