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This comprehensive study of the subject of experimental neuroses in animals includes both the author's own studies and an extensive review of the work of others covered in a bibliography of over three hundred items. It systematically presents the exact definition of the experimentally induced neuroses in animals, the history of the subject, the classification and description of the different types of experimental neuroses with their mechanisms and therapy, using all the most important experimental evidence thus far available on these subjects. The result is a very orderly, well-documented exposition of what is known to date. It will be of great interest to students of psychology generally and certainly indispensable to those interested in the specific topic.
Experimental neuroses are defined as the sum of all the behavioral changes—partial or global, acute or chronic—which occur in an animal when placed in an experimental situation. This definition has the advantage of excluding pathogenesis without in any way prejudicing the relationship of the experimental neuroses in animals to neuroses in man. In the chapter on the history of these studies, the author carefully follows their evolution from the Russian studies in reflexology to those performed elsewhere, especially in the United States, which have been strongly influenced by such psychoanalytic