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THIS is not a cheerful book, but it will be read with zest by psychologists. The author, a man of literary and academic distinction in America, in early middle life became the victim of distressing and disabling, yet quite groundless, terrors. He could not walk more than a few hundred paces from home without panic; and he suffered besides from attacks of acute melancholia. Believing that the causes must somehow be infantile, he resolved to reach them. “I knew indeed there was something down below. What was it? I estimate by careful computation that my efforts to answer this question have been, up to date, equivalent to four semesters of laboratory research.”
The Locomotive-God.
By W. E. Leonard. Pp. v + 434. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1928.) 18s. net.
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H., J. The Locomotive-God . Nature 121, 788 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121788c0
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