The Pathology and Surgery of the Veins of the Lower Limb

The Interstate Publishing Company, Jackson & Van Buren, Danville, Illinois, 1957.142 pages, hard bound, $3.50; paper bouind, $1.50, accompanying 4 therapy records, $3.00.This book-according to the author-presents his con- clusions for the appraisal of the speech correctionist and the stutterer himself.This task is as courageous as it is dangerous.The speech correctionist lacks psychiatric train- ing and lacks therefore the necessary experience in diagnosis and treatment of neurosis.The patient himself will try to find in this book his own emotional story and might identify himself with somebody else's problem instead of finding himself-without a book, but through psychotherapy.To make things more complicated, the author tries to find new meaning in the semantic difference between stuttering and stammering.While the medical speech specialist tries to simplify the situation by eliminating the term "stammer- ing" and by calling the whole syndrome "stuttering," the author proposes to call nonorganized speech, prespeech or speech in the making "stuttering" which can be carried into adult life as subnormal speech function.Nonorganized