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This book attempts the same object as Kubie's Practical and Theoretical
Aspects of Psychoanalysis and Brenner's An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis. It is bound to become a classic, like Fenichel's The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis, and has the advantage of greater clarity of language and presentation than Fenichel and Brenner. As is true of Kubie's book, both the professional and the layman will profit by reading this volume.
Garma shows a thoughtful approach to psychosomatic diseases. His chapters pertaining to the psychoanalysis of dreams are important not only for his theory and new outlook but also for his superb handling of the psychoanalytic literature on the subject. A clinical presentation in another chapter, showing how the hallucination equates with the dream, concludes with his theory of the genesis of dreams as the result of trauma.
The chapter on schizophrenia is very helpful in evaluating how much can be done, how it can be done, what the family is to expect, and how relative may best behave while the psychotic is under treatment. The author shows the same down-to-earth approach in his discussion of obesity, ulcerative colitis, duodenal ulcer, and other psychosomatic conditions. He does not elaborate on headaches and migraine because he has published a previous book on these subjects. Elizabeth Garma adds a masterly chapter, with a graphic clinical illustration, on the analysis of children.
This book deserves to be translated, read, and enjoyed.