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The following list of contents will give an idea of what this book contains. 1. Existing Tendencies, Recent Developments and Correlations in the Field of Psychopathology. 2. The Comparative Method in Psychiatry (Psychopathology). 3. The Human Organism as an Energy System. 4. Individuality and Introversion. 5. Primitive Mentality and the Racial Unconscious. 6. Two Deflecting Traditions. 7. The Significance of
Psychopathology for General Somatic Pathology. 8. Psychoanalytic Parallels. 9. Primitive Mentality. 10. The Adlerian Concept of the Neuroses. 11. Psysical Biology.
It is hard to review the book as a whole because it is a compilation of papers, addresses and book reviews written at various times in the last thirteen years. Running through it, however, is a consistent note of emphasis on the functional view of the mind and on the necessity of viewing both body and mind as a biologically functioning unity. The author rightly insists on the impossibility of understanding human problems, particularly mental ones, so long as man is regarded in the old way as a separate entity without any relation to environment. Most of the book is a running comment on the progress of psychopathology written in the author's well-known lucid and attractive manner. In one place he reviews the great change that has come about in psychiatry during the thirty-three years in which he has been engaged in the work, and he remarks 'for this order of things we have one man to thank more than anyone else in all the world, and that is Professor Freud and his method of psycho-analysis' (p. 66).
The volume will prove equally interesting and instructive to all workers in psychopathology.