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This is the second volume in an annual series of psychoanalytic studies, the first volume of which appeared in 1945. The purpose
of these yearbooks is to reprint psychoanalytic papers 'which would be of interest to physicians, psychologists, anthropologists and laymen who have no access to all of the psychoanalytic publications' (A. A. Brill, Introduction, Volume I). The papers selected include a variety of subjects. A list of selected reading from the literature of 1945 is appended for the reader who wishes to explore further.
In The Genetic Approach in Psychoanalysis, Heinz Hartmann and Ernst Kris present a useful summary of psychoanalytic criteria. The manner in which the pattern of reaction of the child is related to its biological growth and its external environment is delineated. The writers discuss the error inherent in Rank's theory of the trauma of birth, the gratuitous theories of Melanie Klein, and conclude with some pertinent remarks on the importance of the interaction of two methods in the study of individuals; psychoanalysis and the observation of life histories.
Otto Fenichel's Nature and Classification of the So-Called Psychosomatic Phenomena is a very opportune distinction of the difference between conversion symptoms and organic disturbances which are directly or indirectly of psychogenic origin. Fenichel objects to the term 'psychosomatic' since in every mental phenomenon there are somatic expressions, the individual being an indivisible unit.
Thomas M. French, in Ego Analysis as a Guide to Therapy, considers the motives of the ego during analysis and the meaning of specific ego defenses. Quite original is French's interpretation of dreams of seduction as failure of the analyst to have recognized and interpreted the transference. In analytical training it is important to emphasize that repression is a defense against anxiety, and in instances it has to be encouraged to relieve the patient.
The Psychology of Punishment shows that the punishi