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This massive volume brings home to one again the much higher standard of psychopathology in Germany as compared with England or America. The different chapters are written with a fulness of knowledge and a wealth of detail that is rarely found in any of our text-books on the subject. The book itself is divided into the following sections: Part I, Evolution, Formation and Resolution of the Body-Mind Problems in Medicine: (1) The Problem of the Orgasm; (2) The Body-Mind Problem from the Standpoint of Philosophy and the Psychology of Natural Science; (3) The Individual Constitution as the Basis of Nervous Disorder; (4) Conception and Method of Interpretation. Part II, Special Pathology of the Psychogenetic Symptoms: (1) Outline of the Psychogenetic Disorders of Speech; (2) Psychogenetic Disorders of the Action of the Heart; (3) On Bronchial Asthma and Psychogenetic Disorders of Respiration; (4) Psychogenetic Disorders of the Functions of the Digestive Tract; (5) The Mind and Skin Diseases; (6) Psychogenetic Disorders of Micturition; (7) Psychogenetic Disorders of the Female Sexual Functions; (8) Psychogenetic Disorders of the Male Sexual Functions (Psychogenetic Impotence); (9) Psychogenesis and Psychotherapy of Organic Symptoms in Children. Part III, Psychotherapy.
Psycho-analysis receives a respectful and fairly adequate notice in the different sections. Stress is laid throughout on the fact of its being the only biological theory in psychopathology. Adler's work receives more attention than Jung's, but it is pointed out that his conception views a purely psychological reaction to certain physical facts (organic inferiority)