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This book aims at depicting the progress which has been made in psychoanalytic research. It sums up the present state of psychoanalysis in a collection of essays written by analysts of renown obviously chosen because of their special interests and competence in various branches of the subject. The book is not written especially for analysts but, in the words of the editor, for 'psychiatrists, medical men, social workers, educators and others to whom the problems of contemporary life are important, and gives a comprehensive survey of the contributions of psychoanalysis to the healing sciences and general culture.' It consists of a foreword by Smith Ely Jelliffe and thirty-one essays under the headings: Medicine and Psychosomatics, Education and Social Work, Neuroses, Psychoses, Problems of Therapy, and Applied Psychoanalysis.
The first paper, written by Ferenczi and entitled Freud's Influence on Medicine, is a short but clear historical introduction to psychoanalysis. It is followed by papers on the theory and practical importance of psychosomatic medicine by Smith Ely Jelliffe, Flanders Dunbar and O. Spurgeon English. The manifold aspects of child psychology and psychopathology are treated from different aspects by Marianne Kris, Melanie Klein, C. P. Oberndorf, Thaddeus H. Ames and I. T. Broadwin. Social work and mental hygiene are dealt with by Marion E. Kenworthy and Jule Eisenbud. That part of the book dealing with neuroses is preceded by two essays—Ego Psychology by Franz Alexander and Dream Psychology by Monroe A. Meyer—which set forth an important contribution of psychoanalysis to general and normal psychology. There are essays on the various problems of neuroses by A. A. Brill, Abram Kardiner, Bertram D. Lewin, Sandor Lorand, Edward Glover and Ernst Simmel. The contribution of psychoanalysis to the understanding of psychoses is treated by Paul Schilder, Gregory Zilboorg, Leland E. Hinsie and J. H. W. van Ophuijsen. Two essays by Sandor Lorand and He