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DR. GORDON has presented us with a most excellent book, in which he pleads strongly for a rational viewpoint towards the psychoneuroses. He refers frequently to emergent evolution which forms the basis of his previous book on personality. He gives us a very sound review of the Freudian, Adlerian, and Jungian attitudes towards the neurotic personality, and stresses particularly the need for the study of each case entirely on its merits and its treatment without any preconceived notions, using both pure medicine and psychotherapy; in other words, the application of calm common sense.
The Neurotic Personality.
By Dr. R. G. Gordon. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. x + 300. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc., 1927.) 10s. 6d. net.
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The Neurotic Personality. Nature 121, 54 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121054c0
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