An Elementary Psychology of the Abnormal

Abstract

The book is divided into twenty chapters and its major contribution lies in the fact that after an introduction, twelve chapters are devoted to the psychoneuroses and allied phenomena before the psychoses are treated, completely reversing the procedure followed in most texts on the subject. The text opens with a discussion of hypnotism, following which are presented the theories of Janet, Freud, Jung and Adler. The author then takes up the problems of the war neuroses, dissociation, the unconscious, sleep, sex and speech disorders. Five chapters on the psychoses follow. A chapter is devoted to the mentally deficient, to the classification of the normal on the