Abstract
Whatever divergencies of view there may be among different schools of psychopathology, there is agreement concerning the fact that in the development of psychopathologic conditions both the constitutional make-up of the person and his past and present experiences take a part. The most ardent advocates of hereditary influences have to admit that the situational circumstances of a person's life cannot be left out in the scientific analysis of any clinical picture. On the other hand, those who see in immediate situational and more deep-lying psychogenic factors the mainspring of psychopathic states have to rely on constitutional peculiarities to explain the special type or form which the reaction takes. The difficulty and the point of disagreement lie in the more precise evaluation of these factors. It is exceedingly difficult to arrive at general guiding-lines which would allow the estimation of the relative value to be attributed to these two factors in
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