Abstract
In the preface to the first edition the author expressed the hope that this book would prove of some use not only to psychiatrists and to physicians in other specialties who are interested in the scientific basis of the art of medicine, but also to those in other fields such as law, religion, industry, social work, and government, and to all who deal with people and strive to make human life more livable. The author believes that Freud, through the use of psychoanalysis, provided a psychologic microscope through which to observe the mind and so made possible the new science of psychodynamics, the basis of modern psychiatry. In the years prior to the publication of the first edition of this book in 1947, the primary interest of psychiatry had moved away from the psychoses to an understanding of the neuroses which result from the emotional tensions of living and from
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