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This book is intended primarily for those who, without being students of medicine or psychology, wish to keep themselves abreast of modern thought in these subjects. The earlier chapters are devoted to a discussion of the various psychological theories, commencing with Janet's theory of dissociation and its connexion with hysteria and the hypnotic state, and then passing on to Freud's theory of repression. The rest of the book deals with the conception of the unconscious, with psycho-analysis, and with the classification, treatment, and prevention of neuroses. Psycho-analysis is described from three aspects, namely, as a method of investigation, as a doctrine of the content and process of the mind, and as a therapeutic method.
The Psychology of Medicine.
By Dr. T. W. Mitchell. Pp. viii + 187. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1921.) 6s. net.
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The Psychology of Medicine . Nature 110, 412 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110412b0
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