Modern Psychology in Practice
- Author:
W.Lindesay JNIeusiatter, 13.be., M.B., B.b.,
M.R.C.P. J. & A. Churchill Ltd. 1937. pp. 299. 10/6.
Dr Neustatter has managed to compress an enormous amount of information into this book, for he covers not only the psychoses and psychoneuroses of adults, but also the behaviour disorders in children, and many of the legal difficulties that these illnesses raise.
Dr Neustatter discusses some of the old psychology as well as the more modern theories. References are to be found in his book to the more obscure difficulties which arise in psychiatric practice. When so much ground is covered it can readily be recognised that criticism on certain points is easy. Dr Neustatter has managed to keep the balance extraordinarily well, and has added a useful bibliography to his text.
Some of the differences in the type of paragraph headings are a little difficult to understand. Every author has the right to make fresh classifications. The uses of some of them, however, are not readily discernible, as is his division of the endogenous group of anxiety states. In the same way, the commendable brevity with regard to the application of the law has led to some ambiguity.
There are a fair number of case histories. Some of the information about genetic problems is unduly simplified.
Dr Neustatter is to be congratulated upon compressing so much information into so small a space, and is to be thanked for the encouragement which he has given to the study of authorities who discuss the many problems he has raised at greater length. H. W.
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