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By Ernest Jones. Price, $5. Pp. 264, with no illustrations. Basic Books, Inc., 59 Fourth Avenue, New York 3, 1959.

Charles D. Aring, Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1960;106(5):734-736.

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This book will be welcomed by those interested in the development of psychological medicine in Great Britain, the United States, and on the Continent. Ernest Jones was one of the prime movers on the modern psychiatric scene. The measure is here of some of the neurological and psychiatric greats whom Jones encountered on the way to his understanding of the human personality. Since it was the "fashion" in the early twentieth century to assume authority concerning human behavior by reason of knowledge of the structure and function of the nervous system, Jones would not be likely to view them in the traditional light. For those who, as I, look upon Wilfred Trotter as one of the leading medical men of the twentieth century and surely one of medicine's greatest medical philosophers, if not the greatest, Jones's book becomes of the utmost importance because of his close association with Trotter.

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Communications to this department may be sent directly to Dr. William B. Bean, University Hospital, State University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, or to the Chief Editor for transmittal to him.

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