Literary Notices. 541 



distinguishing between hypochondria and neurasthenia,, and, in fact, 

 hypochondria is not a disease entity, but only a psychopathic state, a 

 morbid mental disposition of some kind. There are many varieties 

 and fantastic aspects of the condition, but, in general, it may be said 

 that the patient is usually depressed, and his attention directed chiefly 

 to the condition of his body. Wollenberg rightly remarks that the 

 cure comes 'not by means of physic, but by means of the physician. 



s. I. F. 



Hellpach, Willy. Grundlinien einer Psychologic der Hysteric. Leipzig, 

 Englemann, 1904, viii. -\- 502. Price M.9. 



This is an exhaustively complete historical and analytical study 

 of hysteria. Of its three chief parts the first deals with the problems 

 of hysteria, the second, with the physiological and psychological phe- 

 nomena included under this form of abnormal state or closely associ- 

 ated with it, the third, with the genesis of hysteria. 



As space does not permit of an attempt to indicate the views set 

 forth in the book, a list of the titles of chapters will serve to suggest 

 the general plan of treatment, i. The development of the problems 

 of hysteria. This is chiefly an historical sketch. 2. The concept of 

 disease. A thoughtful discussion of the concept of reactive and pro- 

 ductive abnormality, and of the conditions which determine their use. 

 3. The logic of psychopathology. In this interestmg epistemologic- 

 al study of the subject, of chief value to the pathologist, is a discussion 

 of disease as a developmental concept. 4. Suggestion and psychic 

 causality An introduction to the author's analysis of hysteria. 5. 

 The hysterical disturbances of movement. 6. The hysterical dis- 

 turbances of perception. 7. The hysterical intellect. 8. The 

 psychophysical obstacle before the psychology of hysteria. 9. The 

 sources of hysteria. This chapter contains an account of the relations 

 of the child mind to hysteria, and also of the bearing of " docility" 

 upon this form of psychic abnormality. 10. The path to hysteria. 

 II. The development of the hysterical condition. 12. The social- 

 pathological problem of hysteria. 



The work gives an excellent history of the special problems 

 under consideration, and a convenient bibliography of important litera- 

 ture. It is of equal interest to the psychiatrist, the psychologist and 

 the epistemologist ; and one may venture the judgment that for all 

 there is something of real value in the work. r. m. y. 



Bressler, Joh. Wie beginnen Geisteskrankheiten ? Marhold, Halle, pp. 

 56. 1905. 



Citing freely from such psychiatrists as Kraepelin, von Krafft- 



