British Journal of Medical Psychology

Glover, Edward. The Psychology of the Psychotherapist. 1-17.

Jones, Ernest. The Psychopathology of Anxiety. 17-26.

Yellowlees, Henry. The rôle of Anxiety in the Psychoses and Psychoneuroses. 26-33.

Hadfield, J. A. Anxiety States. 33-38.

Wodehouse, Helen. Natural Selfishness and Its Position in the Doctrine of Freud. 38-60.

Gordon, R. G. Personality Problems, Mental Illness, Suicide and Homicide. 60-67.

Buchanan, D. N. Meskalinrausch. 67-89.

Glover, E. Psychology of the Psychotherapist.-Rarely does the psychotherapist subject himself to the looking glass and the author suggests its occasional desirability. The subjective searching of the heart in view of the long continued effort of this type of therapy is more or less neglected. In the case of the psychotherapist, however, an understanding of the instrument, himself, is imperative. Hence the need for repeated scrutiny of one's own mental systems if this is to be made effective. Inasmuch as, with certain exceptions, the field of general medicine represents an almost unbroken line of defense against psychological means of approach and the persistence with which obvious psychological factors in treatment are plastered with the labels of ‘organic’ therapy, there might arise the suspicion if not the conviction that this neglect in itself might not be considered a little short of being psychotic. As Glover remarks, however, the general physician is not strictly speaking psychotic in his lack of reality feeling in this respect but approaches the conversion hysteria mechanism more closely. Most of the orthodox modes of treatment in clinical medicine are filled with the belief in magic. When recovery takes place a tribute to scientific method is offered. It is necessary to screen from himself his thaumaturgic proclivities. Another defense (projection of self-criticism of psychological myopia), through aspersion of the validity of psychological methods, is also close to hand. A second method of response is frequently