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The contents of this monograph are presented in two parts, the first, “Studies in the Psychological Aspects of Cerebral Neuropathology,” being composed of seven chapters, the substance of which was given in lectures to members of a Washington psychoanalytical group; and the second,” The Relation Between the Personality and Motility of Schizophrenics,” composed of six chapters which are based in part on material studied at Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and were given in lecture form to the staff of that institution.
Professor Schilder's extensive experience in neuropathology and clinical neurology, as well as in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, has fitted him in a very particular way for studying and presenting correlative viewpoints in these subjects, and to contribute extensively toward “filling in the gap between the organic and the functional.”
A consistent attempt is made throughout to bring into relationship the functions of the brain apparatus and the physiological and pathological life adjustments of the total personality. Certain phenomena lend themselves with some facility to such studies, and it is among these that we may hope to gain much valuable information concerning psychobiologic laws and functions. Among these phenomena the author has selected problems of consciousness and of tonus and the postural model of the body, and in the realm of pathology, encephalitis, optic agnosia, and speech disturbances, for his comments in terms of total functions.
In the part on schizophrenic behavior, the postures, stupors, mannerisms, negativism, and motor impulses are described not only in terms of neurophysiology but as expressions of the total organism. Regression, transference phenomena, and emotional reactions in schizophrenia are also discussed in an instructive manner, and illustrated by fragments of case examples.
The notion that mind and body operate in parallelistic ways is still quite alive in scientific thoughts, probably because of its or