This survey by a neurologist is a review-of-the-literature approach to the subject of traumatic neurosis. While adding nothing new to the subject, it has the value of bringing together material from various sources and presenting to the reader a clear picture of the unforessen complication growing out of industrial insurance and workmen's compensation laws.

The title suggests a departure from the customary nosology but the text at the outset introduces the term traumatic neurosis and defines it in the broadest traditional sense: "a psychologic or a nonstructural nervous disorder shortly following a physical injury, and complicated or not by structural changes in the central nervous system or elsewhere". While conceding that on theoretical grounds many or even all of the disorders classified under this definition may be intrinsically not distinguishable from the various neuroses appearing independently of physical trauma, the author believes it