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with explanatory comment. For instance, the reader would find Adler's doctrine of the 'will-to-power' (pp. 125-6) much more intelligible if he were told that it had evolved from the doctrine of ' masculine protest ' and from an over-estimation of the importance of the conflict between maleness and femaleness. The confusion instituted by Macder, Jung and Silberer (p. 114) as to the prospective function of dreams could have been more clearly brought out by indicating that it was one between the dream as such, i. e. the formation of a dream, and the latent content. Similarly it would be worth while pointing out the hiatus in Jung's doctrine that 'regression of the libido results when a person turns back from any task which life may bring to him' (p. 124)— namely, that no explanation is given here ol the specific form and direction taken by the regression, as indeed none can be without taking into account the influence of infantile fixations.

Dr. Mitchell is scrupulously fair to Jung, and goes so far as to ascribe the development of his doctrines to an intense desire on the part of Jung to help his patients more than Psycho-Analysis had been able to. He grants that it might be justifiable to make guesses along prospective lines to help the patient, even if the theorj- underlying this procedure was scientifically unsound, But he is careful to point out the subjective dangers entailed in this and adds: 'From the psycho-analytic point of view it is a defeat; it is a return to suggestion — to the personal influence of the physician used as a means of directly combating the neurotic symptoms rather than as means of overcoming the resistances to self-knowledge and so securmg a solution of the conflicts which are at the root of the malady. . . Psycho- analysis differs from some forms of analytical psychology in that it adheres strictly to the principles of science and does not pose as an. ethical system or as an esoteric religion' (pp. 178-9)-

in conclusion we cordially congratulate Dr. Mitchell on producing what is easily the most valuable book of its scope in medical psychology and can unhesitatingly recommend its use as a text-book to all students and workers in the subject. E- J-

Addresses on Psycho-Analysis. By Professor J. J. Putnam. (The Inter- national Psycho-Analytical Press, London, 1921- Pp- ix + 47o- ^""=6 I2S. dd.) S

The International Psycho-Analytical Press is to be congratulated on ■ |

havmg been able to issue as its first volume this interesting collection T

of the late Professor -Putnam's contributions to Psycho-Analysis. In view of Professor Putnam's eminent position as a neurologist, his championship ^1

of Psycho-Analysis has rightly come to be looked upon as a factor of

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