PEP | Article - The History of Psychology: By W. B. Pillsbury, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan. (George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London, 1929. Pp. 326. Price 15 s. net.)

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Abstract

We have reviewed in this JOURNAL several valuable books on the history of psychology, for instance, those by Brett (JOURNAL; Vol. III., p. 243), Murphy (Vol. X., p. 471), etc. To review the whole story of the development of psychology, from Demokritos to Watson, as the present book attempts, is a task calling for exceptional erudition and exceptionally judicious powers of judgement. In this JOURNAL we are concerned only with the part of the book devoted to psycho-analysis; here these attributes are so singularly lacking as to make it painfully evident that the author has undertaken a task for which he is temperamentally unfitted.

Experience has shewn that if in a presentation of psycho-analysis the