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He repeats the indefinite article " an " before hysterical symptom, which 

 familiarity with "an humble spirit" does not condone. Dr. J. A. Hadfield 

 contributes a very practical chapter upon suggestion and persuasion ; he lays 

 much stress upon the reassociation of a repressed emotion with a new and 

 healthy link in the normal cognitive dispositions. Dr. W. H. R. Rivers 

 distinguishes between unconscious suppression and conscious repression, and 

 Dr. Maurice NicoU adds a technical paper upon Regression, which explains 

 the phrase " I really can't " in Freudian terms ; also another upon Psycho- 

 analysis, in which he claims to explain the conflicts of the unconscious mind. 

 Dr. W. H. Bryce contributes a useful paper upon Institution Treatment for 

 shell-shock cases, and Dr. Millais Culpin a thoughtful record of personal 

 examination which is one of the most useful in the book. A helpful summary 

 by Dr. W. McDougall ends the work, and although he is tolerant of Freudian 

 doctrines he describes them as highly speculative Esoteric views. He enters 

 a claim for a compromise between the different schools, e.g. the school which 

 tends to limit its activity to mental exploration and the other which concen- 

 trates upon a readjustment by suggestion, persuasion, and re-education with 

 suitable vocational training. He lays great stress upon the practical point 

 that at the root of all the neuroses is amnesia, the great end of treatment being 

 not only to recover the lost memory but to re-establish it and to join it up with 

 the rest of the memory continuum when recovery becomes permanent. This 

 is an interesting volume, and the editor has done a useful service to students 

 of mental and nervous disorders by thus bringing the contributors together. 



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Psycho-neuroses of War and Peace. By Millais Culpin, M.D., F.R.C.S. 



[Pp 127.] (Cambridge University Press, 1920. Price los. net.) 



Dr. Culpin is widely known as a distinguished surgeon and a capable student 

 of psycho-pathological conditions. He is the Lecturer upon the Psycho- 

 neuroses to the London Hospital, and during the war, both overseas and at 

 home, he has had an unusually extensive experience of the war neuroses, and 

 his practice has been eminently successful in this department. He quotes 

 the views offered to explain the " driving force " of human endeavour, which 

 when shaken by an emotional shock or thwarted, appears after a period of 

 meditation as a form of hysteria, an anxiety state or a psychosis, and the view 

 entertained by Charcot, or that it is a summation of all the instincts {libido), 

 as expressed by Jung, or that it is the instinct for power and ambition as 

 maintained by Adler, the psycho-neurosis resulting from a dissociation (Janet), 

 or as the result of suggestion (Babiuski), or an overpowering emotion (Dejerine), 

 or a sexual motive (Freud), or a conflict with the personality (McDougall). 

 If the energy postulated by some of these authorities is thwarted by repression 

 and a conflict ensues, the surviving group of ideas associated with an emotion 

 may result in a psychosis or a psycho-neurosis. The author's views are sup- 

 ported by numerous examples, and the whole volume is easily written. It 

 wiU form a reliable and readable guide to the study of abnormal mental and 

 nervous disorders. 



Robert Armstrong-Jones. 



Industrial Colonies and Village Settlements for the Consumptive. By Sir 



German Woodhead, K.B.E., V.D., M.A., M.D., LL.D., and P. C. 

 Varrier Jones, M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. [Pp. xii + 152.] (Cam- 

 bridge : at the University Press, 1920. Price, paper covers 9s., and 

 cloth I05. 6d. net.) 



The importance of the correct after-care of the " middle " or still infectious 

 type of consumptive is well brought out in this book. The arguments set 

 forward by the authors as to the general management of the lives of con- 



