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THE editor of the British Journal of Medical Psychology is a whole-hearted Freudian and does Freud justice. He shows how the study of hypnotism and hysteria in the late nineteenth century resulted in the development by Freud of his theory of psycho-analysis. He discusses very clearly the theory of the libido and Freud's conception of the Ego, the Super Ego, and the Id. Freud's views on the instincts are of course more or less unique, and the author, although critical, treats him fairly. In the chapter on the neuroses, he presents us with Freud's view that the repressed libido finds outlet through condensation and displacement, distortion, and disguise in neurotic symptoms. In his concluding chapter he points out in no uncertain manner that neither Jung nor Adler can be in any way considered as psychoanalysts. When Dr. Mitchell writes anything we expect a brilliant effort, and we are not disappointed in this series of lectures.
Problems in Psychopathology.
Dr.
T. W.
Mitchell
By. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy, and Scientific Method.) Pp. v + 190. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc., 1927.) 9s. net.
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Problems in Psychopathology. Nature 121, 277 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121277c0
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