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As is fairly well known, Dr. Ross now for some years has been Medical Director of the Cassel Hospital in England, a hospital founded for and devoted to the study of so-called functional nervous disorders. One of the first-fruits of his contact with adult psychoneurotic cases was his work on The Common Neuroses. This work he would still offer as a clinical background for the present work, in which he more specifically deals with certain principles of psychotherapy.
As one reads the present work with the former one by one's elbow, one cannot but be impressed with the idea that Dr. Ross has come a long way along the path of deeper understanding of the psychoneuroses. Although a reluctant and still ambivalent Freudian, he says of the present volume, while disclaiming it as a work on psycho-analysis, 'without Freud it could not have been written'.
This general Freudian mould is evident in the chapter headings: Some Views of the Unconscious; The Unconscious Transference; Dreams; Some Sex Problems; Symptom Formation; Fixation and Regression;