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The title of this book is a concise summary of its content and aim. It is an up-to-date contribution to the solution of the Body-Mind problem in the form of essays in correlation between the findings of brain physiology and of psycho-analysis. It consists of two series of lectures united by a common aim described by the author in the words of William White as the filling of the 'gap between the organic and the functional'. The first series, 'Studies in the Psychological Aspects of Cerebral Neuropathology', delivered to the Psychoanalytic Association in Washington, covers a wide field and includes problems of Consciousness, Tonus, Encephalitis, Optic Angosia, Speech Disturbances and the Postural Model of the Body. The second series, 'The Relation between the Personality and Motility of Schizophrenics', given to the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, is a systematic exposition or alternative description of the psychic disorders of Schizophrenia as disorders of motility.
The book runs only to 136 pages, but these are packed with detailed work of a type difficult to summarize at all adequately or fairly. The present reviewer is not competent to pronounce on the neurological aspects, but the data adduced seem to be in accord with modern views on these subjects, e.g. the author's statement that brain activity is always an activity of the whole system, and that when a special function is going on there are only special points in special activity 'a special figure of irritation or function'. The author displays in the main a sound knowledge of analytical theory, tempered by a certain naïvety which comes out in his