The broad view of the articles and books which have appeared in this field during the past year is on the whole tremendously encouraging and in pa�ts even exciting. While there are some wide gaps, particularly in the area of relating diagnosis· to counseling and therapeutic procedures, there is·a general trend towards a healthy integration of varying viewpoints which, while not explicit in some instances, is implicit in the more specific state ments made by the various authors.Possibly the most important trend towards unification is that which concerns the integration of experimental psychology, especially the psychol ogy of learning with psychological therapy generally, and more particularly with psychoanalytic theory and therapy. It also appears that the somewhat artificial barriers between nondirective or client-centered therapy and other more active types of therapy are slowly being dissolved. Likewise, there seems to be a growing recognition that guidance, counseling, and therapy do not represent distinct entities but rather more or less arbitrary points on a continuum relating to the complexity of the problem and the extent of the emotional involvements. With the growing professionalization of counseling and therapy, there is an accompanying instrumentation of the need for as suming professional Fesponsibility, for a guiding set of ethical principles, and for a basic and broad philosophy of psychological counseling and ther apy.