TY  - JOUR
T1  - RElease from nervous tension
Y1  - 1943/10/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1943.02840430068027
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 516
EP  - 516
VL  - 123
IS  - 8
N2  - It is, perhaps, inapropos to review this volume for a scientific journal, since at best it must be relegated to the seemingly endless and wearying stream of popular "expositions" of that most abused and long suffering branch of medicine, psychiatry. To begin with, the book's breathless Sunday supplement style will probably offend the literate reader, whereas the informed one will resent its assertive naïveté ("Human beings have no instincts..."), its pretentious and often misleading pronouncements ("For sufferers from mental disease, Pavlov has sounded a veritable liberty bell.... To cure sick nerves, the patient must be dehypnotized") and the frequent lapses into gross misinformation ("[The] nervous center of our emotional life is called the interbrain.... Inspiration without expression leads to cell death within your brain"). Many of the "case histories," as the author indirectly admits, are obviously invented to suit the occasion, and even so reveal a superficiality of insight and
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1943.02840430068027
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1943.02840430068027
ER  -