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This Is Your World-By Harry A. Wilmer. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1952. 165 pp. Price, $5.50. Admirers of Huber the Tuber will look forward with pleasurable anticipation to Dr. Harry A. Wilmer's new book. They will not be disappointed. This Is Your World is a valuable contribution to the tuberculosis field. As a psychiatrist, who has had a successful bout with tuberculosis, Dr. Wilmer is primarily concerned with the psychological factors influencing the course of the disease. A search through the literature convinced him that few publications on this theme were available. He, therefore, set himself the task. The book opens with a plea for the treatment of the whole man. Rest is of little avail to the patient with serious psychological disturbances whose bed is a gymnasium. If the physician and tuberculosis worker are to be successful, they must deal with the of man chronically ill, struck down and bewildered, segregated by society, asked to give up his independence, his freedom, his responsibility to his family. Dr. Wilmer has found group therapy a valuable tool and because he realized that the psychiatrist is not available in the average sanatorium much of the book is devoted to technics in group therapy which he feels can be used by members of other disciplines. Sample discussions to be used with such groups are produced on records and can be secured separately. Because he believes problems of adjustment to tuberculosis have parallels in the problems of childhood, he presents 16 dialogues each pointing up a childhood conflict situation which can be used as a springboard for the discussion of a similar problem confronting patients. The title of the book is taken from a beautifully written Ballad, a poem in the vein of James Joyce, in which the patient and the doctor, too, let the reader in on their intimate thoughts. The volume has been illustrated by the author in his own inimitable style. Workers with tuberculosis patients will find This Is Your World a helpful manual pointing out not only what to do but how to do it. FRANCES H. BARBOUR

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