Textbook of Psychiatry
Fifth edition. :Author: D. K. Henderson, M.u., JtK.ir.s., ana R. D. Gillespie, M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.M. Oxford University Press. Price 20s. net.
A textbook on a special subject which has reached a fifth edition in thirteen years may well claim to have amply proved its popularity with graduate and undergraduate and we welcome this last edition of ” Henderson and Gillespie” as bringing up to date a work which is fast becoming standard. The chief additions are a full survey of shock therapy in schizophrenia by which the authors think that more rapid recovery may take place, but are not prepared to state that they cure patients who would otherwise be unrecoverable. Psychopathic states have been entirely removed from the mental defectives in the classification and dealt with largely on the lines of Professor Henderson’s Salmon lectures.
A short chapter on war neuroses contains the experiences of Mira in the Spanish War which were somewhat startling to many people who expected a great increase of psychoneuroses among civilians exposed to war conditions.
Instead, it was found that the ” fed ups ” formed the large groups who became depressed and worried simply as a result of a prolongation of adverse circumstances, so that in this respect, as Mira said, ” Butter was quite as important as guns To the chapters on Psychiatry in Childhood have been added a discussion on Play Therapy which is being increasingly recognized as the most hopeful method of dealing with young childhood.
The working of the New Matrimonial Causes Act has made precise prognosis most important and the authors do their best to help medical practitioners in forming their conclusions. The student concerned with mental health or mental illness who wishes a standard work of reference which will give him reliable information on any branch of the subject, cannot do better than to consult the latest edition of Henderson and Gillespie.
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