The Inter-Relationship of Mind and Body: (Vol. XIX of the Proceedings of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases.) (The Williams and Wilkins Company, Baltimore, 1939; Baillière, Tindall and Cox, London. Pp. xx + 381. Price 36 s.)

It is impossible to do justice to this book in a single review, for it contains twenty-two contributions dealing with all manner of themes related more or less closely to the body-mind problem. Mention will be made only of a few of the articles likely to be of most interest to psycho-analysts.

One of the most stimulating articles is that by John C. Whitehorn, entitled 'Physiological Changes in Emotional States'. Medical prejudice tends to represent emotion as something morbid and to evade the problem also by attempts to 'explain' emotion as being something else, as in the James-Lange theory. There is an implication that one ought to be able to explain emotion by reference to somatic correlates, e.g. in the circulatory and respiratory systems. This view is associated with Kraepelin's formulation of the manic-depressive psychosis and the assumption that it is the 'physiological' disorder that maintains the mood. The fact is that no such clear-cut relationship has been established, and Whitehorn prefers the biological or functional theories of emotion, mentioning among others the names of Darwin, McDougall, Freud, Meyer and Cannon.

Whitehorn holds that the fundamental thing in emotion is 'the acute emotional experience', which