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In this monograph the author has undertaken to develop an outline of the fundamentals of psychiatry including the various aspects of psychotherapy. Part one is concerned with a synthetic study of personality characteristics and disease types with particular attention to psychobiological foundations, character anlages, psychophysical associations in disease formations, psychic components of bodily diseases, and reactivity of mental dispositions.
A brief but systematic review of the tendencies to symbolic formations, magic tendencies, emotional fixations and wish fulfillments, the evolution of character, and special factors in the development of types are set forth in a way interesting to the reader if not always acceptable from a scientific standpoint. This part of the book is concluded with a description of the evolution of pathologic personalities with an attempt to correlate bodily constitution with life and experience in the external world.
In part two practically the entire field of psychotherapy together with the practical application of its methods is discussed all too briefly, in fact several of the topics of recognized importance are barely mentioned. However, the general purposes of psychotherapy with its medical relations, trends, social aspects, influence on racial development and esthetic values have received special attention.
Among the psychotherapeutic methods discussed, psychoanalysis, suggestion and hypnosis have been emphasized more particularly from the standpoint of indications and contraindications; here again a vast territory has been covered at the expense of a detail desirable for the specialist and necessary for the novice.
The presentation is completed with an interesting section on educational methods (psychogogiks), where a discussion of the effect and limitations of the psychotherapeutic mode of procedure in psychogogics, the self—evaluation processes, self—protection, reality principles, sexual perversions, psychic traumata, and the bodily