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In this comprehensive work Drs. Hinsie and Shatzky have prepared a dictionary and reference work which, while made up primarily of historical and presently used terms and concepts in psychiatry, contains considerable central material relating to allied fields: clinical neurology, constitutional medicine, forensic psychiatry, mental deficiency, eugenics and genetics, social work, etc. It has been designed in each respect to heighten immediate usefulness and reference value. Thus there has been ample use of cross-references and of entries of compound expressions under both the dominant idea and the modifying part. There is further an entry for the common language equivalent as well as for the technical term.
Dr. Shatzky has prepared the philological data for the some 7,500 separate title entries. There are phonetic transcriptions of pronunciation and a description of philological derivation for each term. The designation of obsolete and obsolescent terms enhances a main feature of the work: that of providing a full survey of psychiatric terms and concepts used from the time of Hippocrates to the present. In this way is provided a unique and valuable account of psychiatric history and development.
Dr. Hinsie has been responsible for the definition of all terms relating to descriptive psychiatry, psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, psycho-biology, forensic psychiatry, mental deficiency, sexology, nursing and social work. The matter pertaining to allied fields has been respectively provided by nine collaborators.
The definition of psychoanalytic concepts and terms offers a wealth of material to all workers in the field. The presentations are concise and comprehensive. The use in an entry of textual excerpts from a work basic to the point in question is a highly useful feature. Through familiarity with a series of such entries the reader is thus brought into