Validity and reliability studies of a method of assessment of the elderly mentally ill by nurses are presented. The method has the advantages of being brief, meaningful and structured into three areas which provide useful distinctions for nursing: Orientation, Behaviour, and Physical Capacity. Applications of the scales are discussed.

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BOOK REVIEWS cations' (teaching patients to link up provoking incidents or ideas, through the often-forgotten chain of thoughts and images, to the often catastrophic emotional response) and his emphasis on con fronting maladaptive beliefs. All in all, he argues well for the conclusion that ‘¿ cognitivetherapy is readily comprehensibleto the patient, testable by the researcher, teachable to the student and economical in terms of time and money'. Young psychiatrists and those responsible for their training cannot afford to ignore the evidence upon which this claim is based.

BOOK REVIEWS that this cross-fertilization is taking place. Personally I found ‘¿ Aspects of Hindu Asceticism' useful in that it digests the eastern cult with Kleinian theory. Today more and more patients are influenced by such cults and it is careful to have easily available knowledge of them when practising psychotherapy.