The Troubled Mind: A Study of Nervous and Mental Illnesses

This book consists largely of a textbook-like monograph on neuroses and psychoneuroses. It is different from the usual directive work for psychiatrists in that out of eight parts in the volume only one is devoted to the psychoses. It is not a particularly great contribution to the subject of study and treatment of the psychoneuroses for it neglects dynamisms and deep interpretations, consisting largely of brief, not particularly thoroughgoing, case studies. Each chapter is packed with a number of these short summaries. The case histories contain much discussion and exemplification of symptomatic materials and patients' reports of their introspections and their attitudes. Many psychiatrists will disagree strongly with the diagnosis given for these cases on a basis of the symptoms listed under each diagnostic category. The mechanisms involved in the various types of neuroses are not gone into to any great extent, nor is the discussion of therapy modern or