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This, the fifth edition of this work, has been very considerably enlarged with the collaboration of other authors. The main portion of de Fursac's book as originally translated is still included. The book has been very considerably enlarged, however, particularly in the chapters dealing with the technique of special diagnostic procedures which include a statement of the Stanford revision of the Binet-Simon intelligence scale, the Kent-Rosanoff free association tests and psychological group tests. Chapters on the practice of psychiatry have been considerably amplified, particularly along the lines of Its extra-mural development. There is a special chapter on medico-legal questions, such as the relationship between vice, crime, and mental disorders, etc. Psychoanalysis comes in for a considerable discussion, covering some 25 pages, which, however, consists mostly of quotations. The book on the whole contains much of interest and value and testifies both to the enlarging field of interest in psychiatry and the growth and the extent of that field itself.
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