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(Therapeutic Approaches of Depth-Psychology.) Edited by L. Szondi. (Bern and Stuttgart: Hans Huber, 1956. Pp. 188.)
Methodische Probleme der klnischen Psychotherapie. (Methods of Clinical Psychotherapy.) By D. Langen (Stuttgart: G. Thieme, 1956. Pp. 120.)
Der Wahnkranke im Lichte alter und neuer Psychopathologie. (The Paranoid Patient in the Light of Old and New Psychology.) By K. Kolle. Stuttgart: G. Thieme, 1957. Pp. 56.
Die Stö rungen der Schriftsprache. (Disorders of Written Language; Agraphia and Alexia.) By A. Leischner. (Stuttgart: G. Thieme, 1957. Pp. 283. DM 30.)
The first book is a symposium in which the representatives of various psychotherapeutic approaches were called upon to answer the following questions: Which part of the mind is to be cured; which part of the personality is mainly involved in the respective methods; the technique of the treatment; indications and limitations of the various methods; the underlying theories. It is clear that these questions could be answered only in general terms. Meng presented the psycho-analytical approach admirably. The other contributors were K. Binswanger (Jung), A. Müller (Adler), L. Szondi ('Schicksalsanalyse' based on a concept of the 'familial unconscious'), H. von Schroetter (group psychotherapy), A. Maeder (religious psychotherapy), and U. Moser (general principles). The book is addressed to lay persons interested in psychotherapy and aims at an integration of the various approaches.
Langen's book is a lucid introduction into the methods of psychotherapy employed at E. Kretschmer's University Klinik at Tübingen. It is informed by Kretschmer's pragmatic and frankly eclectic orientation.
Kolle, the present head of the Munich psychiatric University Klinik, reported on his thirty years' studies into paranoid illness which have left the mystery of the origin and nature of delusion untouched. His follow-up studies revealed that among 30, 000 patients seen by Kraepelin only 19 were suffering f