a study of the larger standard works. The book may be divided into four sections, (1) normal psychology, (2) psycho-pathology, (3) the neuroses and psychoses?including mental deficiency, (4) a concluding section, dealing with the legal aspects of insanity, and with case taking, and mental hygiene. In the chapter entitled "Theories of the Neuroses" the teachings of Freud and of Jung are briefly ...

This book is divided into two sections, one clinical, the second major section dealing throughout with researches into intelligence. This second part contains a valuable survey of all the more usual intelligence tests. In addition to the problem of the inheritance of mental deficiency, Part 1 deals also with the transmission of normal psychological faculties. Symptoms, treatment, anatomy and tr...

The primary duties laid upon Education Authorities by the Education of Defective Children (Scotland) Act, 1906, and the Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act of 1913, are ascertainment of mental defect in the school population of their area, the provision of educational facilities for such cases as are considered educable in Special Schools, and the notification of those considered uneduc...

I am of opinion that the amount of Institution accommodation that will be required in the future is much larger than is generally recognised. My experience as a specialist in seeing patients in their own homes for the Essex Mental Deficiency Committee has shown me the very large number of defectives in one County alone that need and should have Institution care. I believe tha,t large Institutio...

It is unclear whether the development of ‘‘Western’’ psychology and psychiatry, in the last century or so, has overall actually been good for our mental health. The article argues that a deficiency has been the lack of attention paid by these disciplines, to the spiritual component of the Self. There are, however, psychologies’’ developed within religious traditions, which integrate the spiritu...