British Journal of Medical Psychology

1. Miller, E. Present Discontents of Psychopathology. 2.

2. payne, S. M. A Conception of Femininity. 18.

3. erickson, M. H. Experimental Neurosis by Hypnosis. 34.

4. suttie, I. D., ginsberg, M., isaacs, S., and marshall, I. H. Symposium on Property and Possessiveness. 51.

1. Miller, E. Discontents Of Psychopathology.—A pleasing, well-expressed Chairman's address which would emphasize the dangers of nominalism, of neurologizing psychiatry and the failure to keep within the bounds of the terms which a scientific discipline enforces. Of the various concepts now in the field, those of Freud are to the writer the most satisfactory, although he would find certain psychobiological impasses in certain parts of the Freudian structure. Both Jung and Adler have gotten out of line for purely individualistic exploitation. Mapother's “Thunder from Denmark Hill” is well appraised and the neurologizing tendencies of this group aptly outlined. The major causes for the discontent in psychopathology lie therefore in the field of neurological and psychological interpretation, in the complexity of psychological theories which have wandered unnecessarily from biological principles, and lastly, in erroneous social interpretations. Classification of these major issues will incidentally clear up many subsidiary matters and allow us to progress in psychopathology, having shed by the way unnecessary burdens in the form of superfluous concepts, and destroyed misleading social sign-posts.

2. Payne, S. M. A Conception Of Femininity.—A thorough and well thought out discussion of psychoanalytic findings relative to the problems of sex differences. Starting from the biological facts of bisexuality with correlated rudimentary organs, psychology has tended to take over the concept but has colored it by allying activity with maleness and passivity with femininity, not a satisfactory description of real events. Emphasis is put upon the primary fact that in the female orgasm is not an end, conception, p