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Professor Flugel, whose productivity is becoming astounding, undertakes
in this book the ambitious task of summarizing the development of psychology during the past hundred years. In doing so he naturally also paints his picture in light and shade, bringing into relief the events and personalities to which he himself would attach the most significance. To anticipate any disagreement with his perspective he cleverly starts the Preface with the modest remark: 'Such a book as this is almost inevitably bad; in the sense at least that what the reader will find will not correspond to what he hopes for or expects'. Professor Flugel's unusually wide learning and his catholicity of taste well equip him for this difficult undertaking, and it is certainly a book that will prove not only interesting reading but a most useful work of reference.
Professor Flugel has the interesting idea of constructing a chronological table of the major events in the history of psychology from 1807–1932. He notes the appearance of the Studien über Hysterie and Die Traumdeutung as among the important events of 1895 and 1900 respectively, but he does not mention—as one might have expected—the Drei Abhandlungen in the year 1905. It is interesting that the only great events in two of the years were, in Profesor Flugel's opinion, the publication of books by members of the British Psycho-Analytical Society: in 1925 Cyril Burt's Young Delinquent and in 1930 Mrs. Isaacs' Intellectual Growth in Young Children.
We are concerned here, however, only with the section on Psycho-Analysis. There is one chapter on this subject, followed by one on 'Adler, Jung, and "Type" Psychology'. As one would expect from Professor Flugel's grasp of the subject, and from his previous successful experiences in expounding it, the description of psycho-analysis and its development leaves little to be desired. In Professor Flugel's opinion, which is probably right, time will prove the contribution of psycho-analysis to p