Clinical: F. G. Crookshank. The Psychological Interest in General Medical Practice. Psyche, 1925, Vol. V, p. 296.

The main object of this paper appears to be a laudable desire to sweep away the cobwebs still present in the minds of the majority of medical men. The teaching of clinical psychology in our medical schools is neglected because mediæval metaphysics is still firmly embedded in Victorian science. Modern psychotherapy will not become generally accepted until the belief is dispelled that a disease must be seen on a plate after death. Attention is particularly drawn to those cases in which the psychical and physical disorders appear to be evenly balanced. Having very superficially discussed the teaching of Freud, Jung and Adler, the author shows a distinct leaning to the views of the last-named, having stated that each physician tends to develop his technique in terms of his own life-history. He objects to the Freudian technique in the cases mentioned because of its tedious nature and the difficulties of dealing with transference and resistance. He thinks that in employing Adler's method the relation of the physical symptoms to a psychical state can be confidently pointed out at once and transference can be avoided. Adler's method means less insistence on the sexual factor, and this means freedom from embarrassment for both patient and physician.