Recent Advances in the Study of the Psychoneuroses. By Millais Culpin, M.D. Published by  P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Inc., Philadelphia, 1931. Pp.  348.

This last volume of the Recent Advance Series can be heartily recommended to all those who are engaged in any form of psychotherapy as being an intelligent, helpful, constructive and illuminating running comment upon the subject of the psychoneuroses from all of the various points of view by a man actively engaged in their treatment.

Doctor Culpin quite naturally, because of his vast experience, approaches the subject after having set forth an historical introduction by a discussion of the psychoneuroses of the war. He then plunges immediately into the presentation of the present position of psychoanalysis and proceeds at once to the subject in hand. There is an excellent critique of the conditioned reflexes and a somewhat elaborate setting forth of the occupational neuroses, particularly the several types of cramp, such as telegraphers' cramp, miners' nystagmus, and the psychoneuroses in industry, in both of which fields the author has had special experience. There is a very fair setting forth of the Individual Psychology by Adler, by A. R. Redfern, and a very critical analysis of the Psychology of Jung by James C. Young, and a chapter on the Psychopathology of Childhood by Emanuel Miller. Finally, a discussion of Psychotherapeutic Clinics, by J. R. Reese.

The book contains a vast amount of interesting and important information, and should easily find its way into the library of all who are engaged in the active practice of psychotherapy.

White.