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A very clear and readable account of the main features of the development of psychotherapy from Mesmer and Pinel to the present day, together with a glimpse at 'the precursors of psychotherapy from ancient times', among whom Soranus is rated highly. 'Soranus lived in the second century of the Christian era. From him to Pinel there is a long period of 1600 years which we can leap over with a giant's step—a period of arrest, or rather of retrogression.'