THE 



Physiology and Pathology of the Mind, 



BY 



HEHSTRY :MLA.TJIDSII.:EY, M:. r&amp;gt;., Lo 



PHYSICIAN TO THE WEST-END HOSPITAL 



1 vol., Octavo. 442 pages. Price, $4.00. 



From the JJondon Saturday ^Review of Hfcvy 25th, 1867* 



&quot;Dr. Maudsley has had the courage to undertake, and the skill to exe 

 cute, what is, at least in English, an original enterprise. His book is a 

 manual of mental science in all its parts, embracing all that is known in 

 the existing state of physiology. There has, indeed, been more than one 

 attempt to include something of physiological observation in the investi 

 gation of mental phenomena. Dr. Abercrombie, Professor Bain, and Mr. 

 Herbert Spencer must have the credit which is due to those who have led 

 the way in giving this direction to mental science. The revolution, for it 

 is nothing less, which has taken place in this part of knowledge, was begun 

 by the psychologists themselves. But it required a professional physiolo 

 gist to grasp all the phenomena of the nervous system, its normal and 

 abnormal conditions, in one view, and to treat them exclusively on the 

 basis of observed facts. Many and valuable books have been written by 

 English physicians on insanity, idiocy, and all the forms of mental aberra 

 tion. But derangement had always been treated as a distinct subject, 

 and therefore empirically. That the phenomena of sound and of unsound 

 mind are not matters of distinct investigation, but inseparable parts of one 

 and the same inquiry, seems a truism as soon as stated. But, strange to 

 say, they had always been pursued separately, and been in the hands of 

 two distinct classes of investigators. The logicians and metaphysicians 

 occasionally borrowed a stray fact from the abundant cases compiled by 

 the medical authorities ; but the physician, on the other hand, had no 

 theoretical clew to his observations beyond a smattering of dogmatic psy 

 chology learned at college. To effect a reconciliation between the psychol 

 ogy and the pathology of mind, or rather to construct a basis for both in a 

 cemmofi science, is the aim of Dr. Maudsley s book.&quot; 



