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This manual is an amplification of the Salmon Memorial Lectures presented at the New York Academy of Medicine in 1945. Hoskins surveys schizophrenia as a special biological manifestation in man as a product of integrative evolution. He believes that the fundamental approaches to the problems of schizophrenia are (1) the nature of the man who has the disorders, (2) the nature of the distorting forces, (3) the details of the distortions.
The first two chapters, The Biology of Man in Relation to Schizophrenia, and The Pattern of Schizophrenia, follow the well-known holistic concepts of Adolf Meyer and Angyal. An attempt is made to correlate function from cellular to organic and ultimate total somatic integration.
In seeking the etiological basis of schizophrenia, the author admits he is bound to fail because of the complexity of the problem. He