Abstract
DR. NATHAN provides us with an excellent summary of the prevailing French attitude towards the mind and its diseases. He divides his small book up into three sections: the brain and the mind, the so-called organic psychoses, and the socalled functional psychoses. To include mania and melancholia as functional or non-organic conditions in the present state of our knowledge is scarcely justifiable. They are probably of metabolic origin. The best part of the book is the illustrations, some of which are actual photographs of patients, while others are reproductions of well-known pictures, by various Continental artists.
L'Esprit et ses maladies.
Marcel
Nathan
. (Bibliothèque générale illustrée, 15.) Pp. 80 + 60 planches. (Paris: Les Éditions Rieder, 1930.) 20 francs.
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L'Esprit et ses maladies . Nature 128, 6 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128006d0
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