Foundations of Abnormal Psychology.

Abstract

In the preface is the statement "This book is written from the point of view that places psychology in the group of the natural sciences, leaving out the metaphysical and speculative materials." On page 18, "It is a thesis of this book that so-called 'mental' factors do not cause disease (either physical or mental) except through their physiological effects." On page 21, "Mental disorders are to be defined just as other diseases are defined, as pathological conditions resulting from certain bodily disturbances." On the same page the authors classify mental disorders into two groups "(1) those of which the cause and pathology are known; and (2) those about which nothing is known in regard to the underlying causes." On page 52, "The modern psychiatrist talks a great deal, and knows very little, about sex." These are fair samples of the qualities of this volume. Written from an unproved assumption as