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This illustrated monograph is a compilation of twelve papers selected from eighty-four contributions, read before the New York Psychiatrical Society from time to time since its origin in 1903. The selections have apparently been made with a view to cover as wide a field of psycho
pathology and of neuropathology as possible and at the same time to present those constructive ideas which have made or are now making permanent impressions upon our practical psychiatric problems and methods of thinking.
The list of authors of these collected papers includes Dr. Adolph Meyer who has dealt in his characteristically thorough way with the concepts of psychobiology and has presented a theory of integration tending to do away with the “medically useless contrast of mental and physical,” particularly suited for student assimilation; Dr. C. Macfie Campbell, who has contributed three papers on the psychologic mechanism in force in convulsive phenomena, in some instances of manic-depressive excitement and in a particular case of childhood conflicts, and L. Pierce Clark who also has three offerings; on psychopathic children from the standpoint of reconstruction; therapeutic considerations of periodic mental depressions with clinical data offered to show the value of a modified psychonanalytic approach to these particularly difficult problems in selected cases, and a psychologic investigation of thieving in juvenile deliquents where the determinants of this trait in several cases are excellently worked out and interestingly presented.
The problem of therapeutic handling of mental disorders in general hospitals was discussed by the late Dr. P. C. Knapp, whose presentation of this situation is unique and contains much sound advice as well as many stimulating thoughts. Certain relations between the Civil Courts and mental medical affairs are commented upon by Dr. M. C. Ashley, who has presented a case at some length, in a manner serving to bring into relief some of the oft mooted points