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The author, Professor Hollingworth, was one of the phychologists stationed at Plattsburg in the Neuro-psychiatric Unit, and had a large experience in dealing with the neuroses. He has approached the problem, as was to be expected, from the point of view of the psychologist with his methods of measurement of intelligence, statistical studies of the material, and the like, with the constant effort always in mind of finding some way of measuring up the patient and expressing the results quantitatively. It is an interesting account of the net results of such methods, applied both in group studies and to individuals, and given a clear idea of what may be expected from their application in the present state of our knowledge.
The author prefaces the account of his results by a running criticism upon such concepts as “transfer of libido,” “symbolism,” “regression,” “conditioned reaction,” “pithiatism,” “conversion,” “general suggestibility,” “dissociation,” “fixation,” “siphoning of affects,” “attachment of free flowing affects,” “infantilism,” etc, and discards them all as