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Twenty-four years ago, as a fellow medical student already interested in psychoanalysis, your reviewer found the author of this book to be highly sceptical of the value of psychoanalysis to medicine. We have good reason now to be grateful that Leon Saul first rooted himself firmly in physiology, that this led to a fruitful interest in the structural changes consequent to chronic alteration of function and, most important, that he went on to the study of psychodynamics. He is particularly qualified to introduce psychiatry to the medical student as a part of biology and physiology and thus to facilitate its early acceptance as a valid and important branch of medicine. Thanks to Dr. Saul, the road will be shorter for the new generation.
Although developed in connection with medical teaching and presented to fill the long-standing need for an introductory text, this book should also be of service to everyone interested in the psychological sciences. The method of organization and the scope become clear from a brief summary of the contents.
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