UNDERSTANDABLE PSYCHIATRY

by Leland R. Hinsie ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 13, 1948

An elucidation for popular- rather than professional-comprehension of accepted psychiatric theory, by a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia. This presents but does not oversimplify, terminology, symptomology about unbalance, emotional and mental. Emotional illness and pain, the relationship of mind and body; childhood as the first fertile field for later instability; types of personality; neuroses, psychoses and their subdivisions; impulses, instincts and repressions; anxiety and fear; obsessions and compulsions; the manic depressive and the schizophrenic; the epileptic, the alcoholic, the drug addict- these and other phases are assessed and assimilated at a general level of understanding. There is no attempt at original interpretation as in the Karen Horney studies.

Pub Date: April 13, 1948

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1948

Categories: NONFICTION