The Psychology of Dreams. By William S. Walsh, M.D. Published by  Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1920. Pp.  361.

And still the books on the new psychology and the psychology of dreams continue to be written. The stimulus which Freud gave to psychological thinking is producing increased rather than decreased results. Dr. Walsh's book is among this great group. It undoubtedly has satisfied Dr. Walsh very much in the writing and will entertain very many in the reading, though it cannot be said to offer anything particularly new or novel other than the fact that it is the personal presentation of the author. In general, from the psychoanalytic point of view the whole discussion fails in a real appreciation of the meaning and the function and the nature of the unconscious, and although it is true that the author uses psychoanalytic types of interpretation, still they are superficial types which have been uncovered and made available through psychoanalytic insight. What the author says about spiritualism and life after death is very much to -the point and his comments on the fears of the expectant mother and the possibility of their marking the child might be read with profit by the layman. The book is interestingly written and undoubtedly will serve a function in popularizing that new method of thinking which the psychoanalyst believes is so pregnant with possibilities for the future.

White