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THE DUTCH ANNUAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Volume 1 edited by Han Groen-Prakken and Antonie Ladan Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1993, 304 pp., 65.57 Fl.
Written in English, this first volume of the Dutch Annual presents the work of 16 Dutch analysts in 17 papers divided into sections on the history of psychoanalysis in the Netherlands, clinical and theoretical studies, applied analysis, and psychoanalysis in the university. The editors write:
Living in a small country, isolated by a language spoken only in Holland, Flanders and South Africa, at the crossroads between, firstly, British, but also German and French influences, we tend to integrate what is imported in our own individual ways, rather than uniting into one school. We do not integrate everything that comes to us: the most general theoretical trend is towards ego psychology with—for some—considerable influence of the British independent school and from Kohutian self psychology. (p. 7)
MADNESS IN AMERICA Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914 by Lynn Gamwell and Nancy Tomes Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press/Binghamton University Art Museum, State University of New York, 1995, 182 pp., $39.95.
With many illustrations and an excellent accompanying text, the authors tell the story of how mental illness was viewed before World War I and indeed before the advent of more enlightened attitudes toward mental illness. Many of the illustrations appear for the first time and include medical artifacts from archives, museums, and private collections. They describe asylum care and treatment such as water cure, rest cure, electrotherapy, and odd medicinal remedies. One of the authors (Lynn Gamwell) curated the Freud antiquities exhibition. A volume in the Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry series.