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By Theodore L. Sourkes, PhD. Price, $12. Pp 402. Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. (Medical Division of Harper & Row), 49 E 33rd St, New York 10016, 1962.

Mark D. Altschule, MD, Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1964;113(6):903-904.

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Page 2 of this book states that the theme is "the relationship between thinking, and non-thinking matter." This startling pronouncement actually is the high point of the book. The theme is never again brought up, explicitly or otherwise, and the reader is soon drawn into what is largely a moderately detailed account of current biochemical theory and information. Thus chapter 1 is almost entirely a discussion of the nature and history of biochemistry; its 16 pages contain no more than 12 sentences that even remotely refer to mental disease. Chapter 2 comprises 15 pages and 40 references, of which not more than 15 sentences and 9 references even remotely refer to mental diseases; the rest is made up of biochemical material of a general nature. In chapters 3 and 4 the sentences that refer to mental disease increase to an average of three per page. Of the 13 pages in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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