Language's Lattice

Reviews the book, Psychopathology of Communication edited by Paul H. Hoch and Joseph Zubin (1958). Every year the papers given at the annual meeting of the American Psychopathological Association have been edited by Drs. Hoch and Zubin, and this volume reports the 1956 annual meeting, the forty-sixth, which was devoted to the psychopathology of communication. In each of these articles the authors have attempted to analyze problems of communication, to report clinical insights, to describe typical cases, or to present new experimental procedures. The volume suffers, however, from the classic problem in psychopathology--how best to investigate? Communication has now been added to the problems of understanding human behavior, where both speaker and listener set up artifacts. Out of these articles and the observations they include there may emerge a clear way to understand the language behind language. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)