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Book reviews AMERICAN HANDBOOK OF PSYCHIATRY. S. related to psychiatry--philosophy, psychol- Arieti, M.D. (Editor). Basic Books, Inc., ogy, sociology, religion. To bring together this vast body of 1959 , New York. knowledge into one correlated and read- During the past twenty years, American able book has undoubtedly been a tre- psychiatry has been making tremendous mendous undertaking, and the editor and strides both in theory and clinical applica- his board are to be congratulated. The two tions. New theoretical orientations have massive volumes forming this monumental come out on a wave of enthusiasm. Some work are surely the most ambitious ven- have waned in professional interest, some ture of its kind in medicine. Psychiatry has have disappeared, some have split into di- suffered from the lack of a unified source- vergent modifications, some have remained book, such as the large textbooks existing as a more stable part of the body of our in the several other medical specialties. psychiatric knowledge. Classical psycho- True, there are textbooks of psychiatry, analysis, after a long and difficult growth to- but these are generally either purely de- ward acceptance here, rose to a height of pop- scriptive and nosological, or limited by a ularity and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1960 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01873815
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Abstract

AMERICAN HANDBOOK OF PSYCHIATRY. S. related to psychiatry--philosophy, psychol- Arieti, M.D. (Editor). Basic Books, Inc., ogy, sociology, religion. To bring together this vast body of 1959 , New York. knowledge into one correlated and read- During the past twenty years, American able book has undoubtedly been a tre- psychiatry has been making tremendous mendous undertaking, and the editor and strides both in theory and clinical applica- his board are to be congratulated. The two tions. New theoretical orientations have massive volumes forming this monumental come out on a wave of enthusiasm. Some work are surely the most ambitious ven- have waned in professional interest, some ture of its kind in medicine. Psychiatry has have disappeared, some have split into di- suffered from the lack of a unified source- vergent modifications, some have remained book, such as the large textbooks existing as a more stable part of the body of our in the several other medical specialties. psychiatric knowledge. Classical psycho- True, there are textbooks of psychiatry, analysis, after a long and difficult growth to- but these are generally either purely de- ward acceptance here, rose to a height of pop- scriptive and nosological, or limited by a ularity and

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Nov 1, 1960

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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