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AFFECTIVE DISORDERS: PSYCHOANALYTIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEIR STUDY, edited by Phyllis Greenacre. New York: International Universities Press, 1953, 212 pp., $3.00.
A compilation of five papers representing part of panel discussions on affective disorders held at meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1950 and 1951. Four of the articles, by E. Bibring, E. Jacobson, E. Zetzel and G. Gero, are on depression, while the fifth, by M. Katan, is on mania. A foreword by Greenacre is a succinct summary of recent theoretical considerations concerning depression, including suggestions about the early developmental aspects of the ego in relation to this clinical syndrome. The articles themselves summarize much of the previous work in the field of depression, and also suggest further areas for research.
A HISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AMERICA, by Clarence P. Oberndorf. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1953, vii + 280 pp., $5.00.
An account of the beginnings and development of the psychoanalytic movement in America, from the theoretical, educational and organizational points of view, containing numerous personal reminiscences of the author.
A WAY TO THE SOUL OF THE MENTALLY ILL [Monograph Series on Schizophrenia, No. 4], by Gertrude Schwing. Authorized English Edition by Rudolf Ekstein and Bernard H. Hall. Preface by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. New York: International Universities Press, 1954, 158 pp., $3.00.
Originally published in German in 1940, this book describes the work of an analyst with severely regressed schizophrenics. Through motherliness, which is defined as true maternal object libido, as distinguished from mother love, which means loving the child as part