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A learned treatise, written by an author who comes to the discussion of his subject with a rich fund of information, a book which the reviewer feels almost guilty at attempting to criticize, yet he feels called upon in that capacity to enter certain strictures against the work as a whole and to call attention to defects of certain parts in particular.
The author is rather surprising in his selection of an illustration (p. 28) where he says “no man can reject such phenomena as telepathy or thought transference, merely because he cannot understand them.” Of course such a statement does not convict the author of believing in telepathy and thought transference, but it lays him open to that suspicion, else why the illustration? Again (p. 70) he says “the world for us is a collection of things that we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.” He does not here commit himself to a physiological psychology of five senses, but he leaves himself open to the implication that his point of view of the human machine is limited by the concept of five special senses. He suggests “there may be vast reaches of things for which we have no avenues of approach,” but he does not suggest that there are a large number of specialized receptors other than the five that he mentioned.
His comments on Freud are disappointing and show a pretty profound lack of understand of what he has contributed to psychopathological