While emphasizing the contribution of psychology to understanding human behavior and improving human relations, [Margaret O. Hyde and Edward S. Marks, the authors of Psychology in Action,] cover various therapeutic methods: testing, experimental psychology, perception and learning, and the psychological effects of the space age. Some of the clearest writing is about clinical psychologists and counselors. Examples of questions young people ask about themselves will strike a responsive chord in many adolescents, e.g. "How do you find your real self?" "Are you normal if you have not found yourself?" Social psychologists and their studies of both Negro and white attitudes toward each other are presented, and there is an attempt to distinguish between psychologists and psychiatrists. On the whole this is a useful and interesting book. (pp. 65-6)