Priest in the world of today are faced increasingly with the problems produced by mental illness and psychopathic personality,. This book, written by a Catholic psychiatrist who has for many years worked in close collaboration with priests in Holland, present for the first time a lucid guide to the various classes of neurosis and the characteristics of the different kinds of psychopath. Dr. Terruwe's description are stripped of the complex jargon the makes so many books on mental health difficult reading for those without specialist training and her theoretical classifications are supported by practical solutions enabling the priest to meet situations that cannot properly be handled in the confessional. Dr. Terruwe's work, however, will compel a wider public than the clergy and those professionally concerned with the sick in mind because of the new ground she covers in her modification of the Freudian analysis of certain neuroses and in her utilization of the traditional categories of Thomist thought to throw new light upon psychological medicine.