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Dr. Murray H. Sherman and members of the editorial staff of the Psychoanalytic Review had the excellent idea of publishing a commemorative anthology for the 50th Anniversary of this journal. The volume comprises a selection of twenty-eight articles chosen from among those published in the Journal under its various names, since its foundation in 1913. The reader is struck by the diversity of these articles, their originality and their interest. They are arranged under five headings.
The historical section includes biographic notices of two eminent American pioneers of psychoanalysis, William Alanson White and Smith Ely Jelliffe, co-founders of the Psychoanalytic Review. Less well known than Jelliffe's contribution to the role of psychosomatic medicine is his work in the area of “paleopsychology,” an area usually associated only with the name of Ferenczi. Following is an essay of Hanns Sachs, who, soon after Freud's death, published an interpretation of “The Man Moses.”
The clinical section contains seven contributions. Sandor Lorand's paper of 1923 on “Painless Delivery in Hypnosis” has hardly more than historical interest, and is not devoid of errors. Long before Freud, the “fixation of the subject's libido on the person of the hypnotist” had been pointed out by generations of magnetizers and hypnotists, and had been emphasized by Freud's teacher, Meynert. Nolan D.C. Lewis’ observations on “The Castration Reaction in Males” try to establish a link between Freud's castration complex and occurrences of self-castration in psychotic patients. Robert P. Knight deals with the delicate problem of analysis of clergymen and other deeply religious persons, in whom it would be a serious technical error to interpret the religious beliefs themselves. Paul Schilder's study on “The Social Neuroses” , treats a topic which had been sorely neglected in psychoanalytic literature. It is strange that Schilder ignored the detailed investigations of this field made by Pierre Janet during th