Beschreibung:
This book marked a notable advance in psychiatry in that it emphasizes sharply the contrast between the older descriptive psychiatry of Kraeplin and the newer interpretative psychiatry of the present time which utilizes the psychoanalytical principles and general biological viewpoints developed by Freud and his pupils in Europe and by Meyer, Hoch, White and others.
I. Psychological Introduction II. General Psychopathology III. Physical Symptoms IV. The Manifestation of Mental Diseases V. The Course of Mental Disease VI. The Borderlines of Insanity IX. Differential Diagnosis X. Causes of Mental Diseases XI. The Treatment of Mental Diseases in General XII. The Significance of Psychiatry XIII. The Individual Mental Diseases XIV. Oligophrenias